Famous Isadora Duncan Quotations

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"The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet."
by Isadora Duncan
"A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it."
by George Bernard Shaw (about Isadora Duncan)
"Dancing The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body."
by Isadora Duncan
"No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony."
by Isadora Duncan
"Under the influence of art the walls expand, the roof rises, and it becomes a temple."
by Robert Ingersoll
"What one has not experienced one will never understand in print."
by Isadora Duncan
"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."
by Isadora Duncan
"The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche."
by Isadora Duncan
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul."
by Isadora Duncan
"It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage."
by Isadora Duncan
"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."
by Isadora Duncan
"People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life."
by Isadora Duncan
"Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?"
by Isadora Duncan
"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."
by Isadora Duncan
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences."
by Isadora Duncan


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