Quote

I am seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body's movement.

Isadora Duncan

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Isadora Duncan
Age: 49 †
Born: 1878
Born: May 27
Died: 1927
Died: September 14
Autobiographer
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Screenwriter
San Francisco County
California
The Foolish Virgin
Aĭsedora Dunkan
Izadora Dënkan
A. Dunkan
Angela Duncan
Dora Angela Duncan
Angela Isadora Duncan
Expression
Divine
Movement
Spirit
Body
Medium
Might
Mediums
Human
Seeking
Humans
Dance

More quotes by Isadora Duncan

Image
Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?
Isadora Duncan
Image
Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.
Isadora Duncan
Image
The Dance of the Future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art which is not religious is not art, it is mere merchandise
Isadora Duncan
Image
These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.
Isadora Duncan
Image
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
Image
I do not teach children, I give them joy.
Isadora Duncan
Image
If I could explain, I wouldn't need to dance!
Isadora Duncan
Image
Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and champagne. If people ask me when I began to dance, I reply 'In my mother's womb, probably as a result of the oysters and Champagne.'
Isadora Duncan
Image
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.
Isadora Duncan
Image
Memories are less tangible than dreams.
Isadora Duncan
Image
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.
Isadora Duncan
Image
The wind? I am the wind. The sea and the moon? I am the sea and the moon. Tears, pain, love, bird-flights? I am all of them. I dance what I am. Sin, prayer, flight, the light that never was on land or sea? I dance what I am.
Isadora Duncan
Image
Movements are as eloquent as words.
Isadora Duncan
Image
To dance is to live. What I want is a school of life.
Isadora Duncan
Image
People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.
Isadora Duncan
Image
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.
Isadora Duncan
Image
I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.
Isadora Duncan
Image
What I am interested in doing is finding and expressing a new form of life
Isadora Duncan
Image
Master technique, so that technique NEVER prevents you from dancing.
Isadora Duncan
Image
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.
Isadora Duncan