Isadora Duncan Quotations

I finally discovered the source of all movement, the unity from which all diversities of movement are born.

One might say that the American trend of education is to reduce the senses almost to nil.

I hope that schools have changed since I was a little girl. My memory of the teaching of the public schools is that it showed the brutal incomprehension of children.

Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives.

No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.

All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture....

Farewell my friends, I go to glory.

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.'

There are joys so complete, so all perfect, that one should not survive them.

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.