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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 religious is not art, it is mere merchandise

Isadora Duncan

Religious, Art, Greek

Isadora Duncan (1909). “The Dance”

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The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.

Isadora Duncan

Dance, Teacher, Dancing

Isadora Duncan (1972). “My Life”, Liveright Publishing Corporation

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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, love or art.

Isadora Duncan

Art, Food, America

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All my lovers have been geniuses; it's the one thing that I insist.

Isadora Duncan

Genius, Lovers, My Lover

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So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

Isadora Duncan

Love, Peace, Children

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Isadora Duncan

Marriage, Intelligent, Feminist

My Life ch. 19 (1927)

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No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most.

Isadora Duncan

Music, America, Ears

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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.

Isadora Duncan

Dance, Art, Taken

Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.33, W. W. Norton & Company

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Farewell my friends, I go to glory.

Isadora Duncan

Farewell, Glory, Last Words

Quoted in Mary Desti, Isadora Duncan's End (1929)

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America knows nothing of food, love, or art.

Isadora Duncan

Sarcastic, Art, Food

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It is the mission of all art to express the highest and most beautiful ideals of man.

Isadora Duncan

Beautiful, Dance, Art

Isadora Duncan (1909). “The Dance”

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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 and champagne. If people ask me when I began to dance, I reply 'In my mother's womb, probably as a result of the oysters and Champagne.'

Isadora Duncan

Mother, Wine, Oysters

Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.1, W. W. Norton & Company

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The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

Isadora Duncan

Writing, Should Have, Essentials

Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.32, W. W. Norton & Company

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Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

Isadora Duncan

Dance, Mad, People

Isadora Duncan (1972). “My Life”, Liveright Publishing Corporation

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I intend to work for this dance of the future. I do not know whether I have the necessary qualities; I may have neither genius nor talent nor temperament. But I know that I have a Will; and will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.

Isadora Duncan

Dance, Dancing, Quality

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With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.

Isadora Duncan

Family, Mothers Day, Mom

Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.170, W. W. Norton & Company

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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.

Isadora Duncan

Real, Spring, Opportunity

Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.34, W. W. Norton & Company

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Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.

Isadora Duncan

One Direction, People, Purpose

Isadora Duncan (1972). “My Life”, Liveright Publishing Corporation

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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.

Isadora Duncan

Writing, Men, Great Work

Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.33, W. W. Norton & Company

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It is only in romances that people undergo a sudden metamorphosis. In real life, even after the most terrible experiences, the main character remains exactly the same.

Isadora Duncan

Change, Real, Character

Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.33, W. W. Norton & Company

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It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

Isadora Duncan

Dance, Believe, America

Isadora Duncan (1972). “My Life”, Liveright Publishing Corporation

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I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.

Isadora Duncan

Successful, Earth, Ideals

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Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.

Isadora Duncan

Determination, Energy, Genius

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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.

Isadora Duncan

Crush, Children, Joy

Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.33, W. W. Norton & Company

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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 life.

Isadora Duncan

Beautiful, Dance, Art

Isadora Duncan (1909). “The Dance”

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Born: May 27, 1877
Died: September 14, 1927
Occupation: Dancer
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