109 Quotes by Isadora Duncan

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

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.

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.

All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture...

I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example – out of the prison of corsets.

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.’

Don’t let them tame you.

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

No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America – it is too mighty for the ears of most.