Isadora Duncan
Isadora Duncan
Angela Isadora Duncanwas an American dancer. Born in California, she lived in Western Europe and the Soviet Union from the age of 22 until her death at age 50. She performed to acclaim throughout Europe...
ProfessionChoreographer
Date of Birth27 May 1877
CitySan Francisco, CA
body spirit should
Anybody can and should dance... It's good for the body and the spirit.
family mothers-day mom
With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.
marriage intelligent feminist
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
dance quality genius
I intend to work for this dance of the future. I do not know whether I have the necessary qualities; I may have neither genius nor talent nor temperament. But I know that I have a Will; and will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.
writing should-have matter
The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
lying years break-through
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.
life women memorable
People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.
dream memories tangible
Memories are less tangible than dreams.
art dancer body
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.
art levels emotion
To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art.
one-direction people purpose
Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.
music dance soul
The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.
successful earth ideals
I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.
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America knows nothing of food, love, or art.