People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life. Isadora Duncan More Quotes by Isadora Duncan More Quotes From Isadora Duncan The wind? I am the wind. The sea and the moon? I am the sea and the moon. Tears, pain, love, bird-flights? I am all of them. I dance what I am. Sin, prayer, flight, the light that never was on land or sea? I dance what I am. Isadora Duncan pain moon prayer If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it Isadora Duncan ballet-class music dance There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques; second, those who, by concentrating their minds, lead the body into the rhythm of a desired emotion, expressing a remembered feeling or experience. And finally, there are those who convert the body into a luminous fluidity, surrendering it to the inspiration of the soul. Isadora Duncan dancing dance inspiration The movement of the waves, of winds, of the earth is ever in the same lasting harmony. We do not stand on the beach and inquire of the ocean what was its movement of the past and what will be its movement of the future. We realize that the movement peculiar to its nature is eternal to its nature. The dancer of the future will be one whose body and soul have grown so harmoniously together that the natural language of that soul will have become the movement of the body. Isadora Duncan ocean beach past You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you. Isadora Duncan sensual inspirational life Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual. Isadora Duncan movement dancing dance The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled by the profound rhythm of inner emotion. Emotion does not reach the moment of frenzy out of a spurt of action; it broods first, it sleeps like the life in the seed, and it unfolds with a gentle slowness. The Greeks understood the continuing beauty of a movement that mounted, that spread, that ended with a promise of rebirth. Isadora Duncan dance expression sleep Let us first teach little children to breathe, to vibrate, to feel, and to become one with the general harmony and movement of nature. Let us first produce a beautiful human being, a dancing child. Isadora Duncan dance beautiful inspirational Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body. Isadora Duncan freedom dancing dance The Dance - it is the rhythm of all that dies in order to live again; it is the eternal rising of the sun. Isadora Duncan dance sun order My motto - sans limites. Isadora Duncan passion dance dream A dancer, if she is great, can give to the people something that they can carry with them forever. They can never forget it, and it has changed them, though they may never know it. Isadora Duncan dance giving people 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. Isadora Duncan dance real past To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art. Isadora Duncan levels emotion art Now I am going to reveal to you something which is very pure, a totally white thought. It is always in my heart; it blooms at each of my steps... The Dance is love, it is only love, it alone, and that is enough... I, then, it is amorously that I dance: to poems, to music but now I would like to no longer dance to anything but the rhythm of my soul. Isadora Duncan soul white heart Movements are as eloquent as words. Isadora Duncan gymnastics ballet movement Anybody can and should dance... It's good for the body and the spirit. Isadora Duncan body should spirit If I could say it, I would not have to dance it. Isadora Duncan if-i-could ifs I am seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body's movement. Isadora Duncan movement dance expression Oh Woman, come before us, before our eyes longing for beauty, and tired of the ugliness of civilization, come in simple tunics, letting us see the line and harmony of the body beneath, and dance for us. Dance us the sweetness of life. Give us again the sweetness and the beauty of the true dance, give us again the joy of seeing the simple unconscious pure body of a woman. Like a great call it has come, and women must hear it and answer it. Isadora Duncan tired eye simple
