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Dance Quotes by Isadora Duncan
- Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters…
- 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…
- 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,…
- Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.
- Anybody can and should dance... It's good for the body and the spirit.
- My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the wave.
- The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.
- My motto - sans limites.
- Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?
- 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…
- It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.
- The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for…
- If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it
- Now I am going to reveal to you something which is very pure, a totally white thought. It is always in my heart; it blooms…
- Oh Woman, come before us, before our eyes longing for beauty, and tired of the ugliness of civilization, come in simple tunics, letting us see…
- Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.
- A dancer, if she is great, can give to the people something that they can carry with them forever. They can never forget it, and…
- There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques;…
- I am seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body's movement.
- 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.
- The Dance - it is the rhythm of all that dies in order to live again; it is the eternal rising of the sun.
- To dance is to live. What I want is a school of life.
- 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…
- Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing is the Dionysian…
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- The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. — George Balanchine
- Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. — Dave Barry
- I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- The more injuries you get, the smarter you get. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. — Mikhail Baryshnikov