Quotes from Isadora Duncan

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.

I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

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

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.

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

My motto: sans limites.

The finest inheritance you can give a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

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

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

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

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 ecstasy which carries away all.

People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.

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.

To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art.

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

These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.

Oh, she is coming, the dancer of the future… more glorious than any woman who has yet been: more beautiful than the Egyptian, than the early Italian, than all women of past centuries—the highest intelligence in the freest body!

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

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.

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

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

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.

Dancing The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.