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Art Quotes by Isadora Duncan
- I would rather live in Russia on black bread and vodka than in the United States at the best hotels. America knows nothing of food,…
- The Dance of the Future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art which is not…
- To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art.
- The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer has forgotten it,…
- Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to…
- It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art…
- These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.
- I have discovered the dance. I have discovered the art which has been lost for two thousand years
- It is the mission of all art to express the highest and most beautiful ideals of man.
- To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my…
- America knows nothing of food, love, or art.
- My art is just an effort to express the truth of my being in gesture and movement. It has taken me long years to find…
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