Quotes by Isadora Duncan

All my lovers have been geniuses; it’s the one thing that I insist.

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

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

Don’t let them tame you.

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.’

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

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

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.

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