Isadora Duncan

Dancer

1877-05-26

Quotes by Isadora Duncan

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

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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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• 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.

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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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• 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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• 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.

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

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

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• The whole world is absolutely brought up on lies. We are fed nothing but lies. We begin with lies, and half our lives we live with lies. Most human beings waste some twenty-five to thirty years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.

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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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• My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the waves.

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