I was born by the sea, and I have noticed that all the great events of my life have taken place by the sea. My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the waves. Isadora Duncan More Quotes by Isadora Duncan More Quotes From Isadora Duncan 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. Isadora Duncan artist beauty love The dancer will not belong to a nation but to all humanity. Isadora Duncan dancer nations humanity So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world. Isadora Duncan love peace children 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.' Isadora Duncan oysters wine mother With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood. Isadora Duncan mothers-day family mom It is the mission of all art to express the highest and most beautiful ideals of man. Isadora Duncan dance beautiful art 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 feet giving children What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print. Isadora Duncan print experience understanding All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture. Isadora Duncan gestures 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. Isadora Duncan one-direction purpose people America knows nothing of food, love, or art. Isadora Duncan sarcastic food art I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth. Isadora Duncan ideals successful earth What I am interested in doing is finding and expressing a new form of life Isadora Duncan findings form I do not teach children, I give them joy. Isadora Duncan learning teaching children The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche. Isadora Duncan dancing dance teacher 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 Isadora Duncan greek religious art I would rather live in Russia on black bread and vodka than in the United States at the best hotels. America knows nothing of food, love or art. Isadora Duncan food america art It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage. Isadora Duncan dance believe america 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. Isadora Duncan dancer body art My art is just an effort to express the truth of my being in gesture and movement. It has taken me long years to find even one absolutely true movement. Isadora Duncan dance taken art
