Quotes by Isadora Duncan

Isadora Duncan

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 it has changed them, though they may never know it.

Dance

Giving

People

Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives.

Great Work

Men

Writing

Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.

Dance

Dancing

Movement

Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.

Dance

Dancing

Freedom

Farewell my friends, I go to glory.

Farewell

Glory

Last Words

For I was never able to understand, then or later on, why, if one wanted to do a thing, one should not do it. For I have never waited to do as I wished. This has frequently brought me to disaster and calamity, but at least I have had the the satisfaction of getting my own way.

Able

Satisfaction

Way

I am seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body’s movement.

Dance

Expression

Movement

I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me.

Night

Perfect

Theatre

I have discovered the dance. I have discovered the art which has been lost for two thousand years

Art

Dance

Years

I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning to apprehension of the first realisation of tragic undercurrents; apprehension of the pitiless brutality and crushing progress of life.

Children

Crush

Joy

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Agony

America

Art

Ballet

Ballet Class

Beautiful

Believe

Body

Break Through

Children

Crush

Dance

Dancing

Dream

Essentials

Example

Experience

Expression

Farewell

Findings

Flower

Food

Form

Freedom

Girl

Giving

Glory

Great Work

Greek

Gymnastics

Half

Heart

If I Could

Ifs

Inspirational

Joy

Last Words

Life

Lying

Matter

Memorable

Memories

Men

Might

Mind

Moon

Movement

Music

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Quotes by Isadora Duncan

Isadora Duncan

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 it has changed them, though they may never know it.

Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives.

Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.

Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.

Farewell my friends, I go to glory.

For I was never able to understand, then or later on, why, if one wanted to do a thing, one should not do it. For I have never waited to do as I wished. This has frequently brought me to disaster and calamity, but at least I have had the the satisfaction of getting my own way.

I am seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body’s movement.

I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me.

I have discovered the dance. I have discovered the art which has been lost for two thousand years

I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning to apprehension of the first realisation of tragic undercurrents; apprehension of the pitiless brutality and crushing progress of life.

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