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
art flower agony
No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.
beautiful dance art
To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life.
dance art taken
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.
love art world
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.
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.
art food america
America knows nothing of food, love, or art.
beauty love-is artist
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.
dance art years
I have discovered the dance. I have discovered the art which has been lost for two thousand years
beautiful dance art
It is the mission of all art to express the highest and most beautiful ideals of man.
religious art greek
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
beautiful dance art
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.
art america russia
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.
art people rich
These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.