Isadora Duncan Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

  Isadora Duncan

  Able, Way, Satisfaction

  "My Life (Revised and Updated)".

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• What I am interested in doing is finding and expressing a new form of life

  Isadora Duncan

  Form, Findings

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• The whole world is absolutely brought up on lies. We are fed nothing but lies. It begins with lies and half our lives we live with lies.

  Isadora Duncan

  Lying, Half, World

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• I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.

  Isadora Duncan

  Mind, Example, Body

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• There are joys so complete, so all perfect, that one should not survive them.

  Isadora Duncan

  Perfect, Joy, Should

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.159, W. W. Norton & Company

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• All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture.

  Isadora Duncan

  Gestures

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• The artist is the only lover; he alone has the pure vision of beauty, and love is the vision of the soul when it is permitted to gaze upon immortal beauty.

  Isadora Duncan

  Love, Beauty, Artist

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.35, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Master technique, so that technique NEVER prevents you from dancing.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dancing, Technique, Masters

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• The butcher with his bloody apron incites bloodshed, murder. Why not? From cutting the throat of a young calf to cutting the throats of our brothers and sisters is but a step. While we ourselves are living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal conditions on the earth?

  Isadora Duncan

  Brother, Cutting, Animal

  "My Life". Book by Isadora Duncan (Chapter 28), 1927.

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• What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

  Isadora Duncan

  Understanding, Experience, Print

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.63, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I finally discovered the source of all movement, the unity from which all diversities of movement are born.

  Isadora Duncan

  Diversity, Unity, Movement

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• If I could explain, I wouldn't need to dance!

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Dancing, Needs

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• The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

  Isadora Duncan

  Music, Dance, Soul

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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.

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  Dance, Soul, Together

  Isadora Duncan (1909). “The Dance”

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• No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.

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  Art, Flower, Agony

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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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  Heart, White, Soul

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• To dance is to live. What I want is a school of life.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, School, Want

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• Memories are less tangible than dreams.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dream, Memories, Tangible

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

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• The dancer will not belong to a nation but to all humanity.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dancer, Humanity, Nations

  "The Dance".

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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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  Lying, Years, Break Through

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

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Art, Years

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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• One might say that the American trend of education is to reduce the senses almost to nil.

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  United States, Trends, Might

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.64, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of her soul...This is the truly creative dancer, natural but not imitative, speaking in movement out of herself and out of something greater than all selves.

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  Self, Dancer, Creative

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• 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, who should remember it, as the instrument of [the dance] art is the human body itself.

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  Art, Dancer, Body

  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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