Quotes of Isadora Duncan - somelinesforyou

“ 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 Duncan

“ 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. ”

- Isadora Duncan

“ The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking. ”

- Isadora Duncan

“ While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth? ”

- Isadora Duncan

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

- Isadora Duncan

“ 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. ”

- Isadora Duncan

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

- Isadora Duncan

“ 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

“ You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you. ”

- Isadora Duncan

“ You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you! ”

- Isadora Duncan

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

- Isadora Duncan

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

- Isadora Duncan

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

- Isadora Duncan

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

- Isadora Duncan

“ 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. ”

- Isadora Duncan

“ 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. ”

- Isadora Duncan

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

- Isadora Duncan

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

- Isadora Duncan

“ 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

“ 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. ”

- Isadora Duncan

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

- Isadora Duncan

“ 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

“ 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

“ My motto: sans limites. ”

- Isadora Duncan

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

- Isadora Duncan

“ 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. ”

- Isadora Duncan

“ The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking. ”

- Isadora Duncan

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

- Isadora Duncan

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

- Isadora Duncan

“ If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it. ”

- Isadora Duncan
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