Isadora Duncan Quotes
Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?
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.
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.
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.
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.
I finally discovered the source of all movement, the unity from which all diversities of movement are born.
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.
I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.
So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
One might say that the American trend of education is to reduce the senses almost to nil.
No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most.
I hope that schools have changed since I was a little girl. My memory of the teaching of the public schools is that it showed the brutal incomprehension of children.
The finest inheritance you can give a child is to allow it to make its own way completely on its own feet.
