Isadora Duncan Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I am seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body's movement.”
-- Isadora DuncanSource : Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.60, W. W. Norton & Company
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“Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.”
-- Isadora DuncanSource : Isadora Duncan (1909). “The Dance”
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“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; second, those who, by concentrating their minds, lead the body into the rhythm of a desired emotion, expressing a remembered feeling or experience. And finally, there are those who convert the body into a luminous fluidity, surrendering it to the inspiration of the soul.”
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“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.”
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“If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it”
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“Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.”
-- Isadora DuncanSource : Isadora Duncan (1909). “The Dance”
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“So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.”
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“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 of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.”
-- Isadora DuncanSource : Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company
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“The Dance - it is the rhythm of all that dies in order to live again; it is the eternal rising of the sun.”
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“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 the line and harmony of the body beneath, and dance for us. Dance us the sweetness of life. Give us again the sweetness and the beauty of the true dance, give us again the joy of seeing the simple unconscious pure body of a woman. Like a great call it has come, and women must hear it and answer it.”
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“If we seek the real source of the dance, if we go to nature, we find that the dance of the future is the dance of the past, the dance of eternity, and has been and always will be the same... The movement of waves, of winds, of the earth is ever the same lasting harmony.”
-- Isadora DuncanSource : Isadora Duncan (1909). “The Dance”
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“Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.”
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“Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?”
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“These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.”
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“Movements are as eloquent as words.”
-- Isadora DuncanSource : Isadora Duncan (1972). “My Life”, Liveright Publishing Corporation
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“I do not teach children, I give them joy.”
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“Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.”
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“With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.”
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“The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.”
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“Let us first teach little children to breathe, to vibrate, to feel, and to become one with the general harmony and movement of nature. Let us first produce a beautiful human being, a dancing child.”
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“You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.”
-- Isadora DuncanSource : "Fictional character: Isadora Duncan". "Isadora", www.imdb.com. 1968.
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“The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.”
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“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 at each of my steps... The Dance is love, it is only love, it alone, and that is enough... I, then, it is amorously that I dance: to poems, to music but now I would like to no longer dance to anything but the rhythm of my soul.”
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“Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.”
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“We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.”
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“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 even one absolutely true movement.”
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“The dancer of the future will be one whose body & soul have grown so harmoniously together that the natural language of the soul will have become the movement of the body.”
-- Isadora DuncanSource : Isadora Duncan (1909). “The Dance”
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“What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.”
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“Eleonora Duse said, "Tell me about Deirdre and Patrick," and made me repeat to her all their little sayings and ways, and show her their photos, which she kissed and cried over. She never said 'Cease to grieve', but she grieved with me, and, for the first time since their death, I felt I was not alone.”
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