Isadora Duncan Quotes

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.
Isadora Duncan

Soul, Body, Simply

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
Isadora Duncan

Marriage, Woman, Goes

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.
Isadora Duncan

Here, Once, Wild

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.
Isadora Duncan

Experience, Understand, Print

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
Isadora Duncan

Love, True, Children

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.
Isadora Duncan

Today, Human, Through

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.
Isadora Duncan

Love, Art, Live

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.
Isadora Duncan

Mother's Day, Pay, Price

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?
Isadora Duncan

Person, Different, Mad

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
Isadora Duncan

Give, Child, Feet

My motto - sans limites.
Isadora Duncan

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.
Isadora Duncan

Work, Art, Beautiful

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.
Isadora Duncan

Real, May, Spring

People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.
Isadora Duncan

Life, Live, Percent

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
Isadora Duncan

Experience, Writing, Matter

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.
Isadora Duncan

America, Anyone, Seems

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
Isadora Duncan

Experience, Thought, Ends

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.
Isadora Duncan

School, Long, Real

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Dancer

Born: May 26, 1877

Died: September 19, 1927

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