109 Quotes by Isadora Duncan

America knows nothing of food, love, or art.

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.

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

If I could explain, I wouldn't need to dance!

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

If we seek the real source of the dance, if we go to nature, we find that the dance of the future is the dance of the past, the dance of eternity, and has been and always will be the same... The movement of waves, of winds, of the earth is ever the same lasting harmony.

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.

It is the mission of all art to express the highest and most beautiful ideals of man.

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.