Isadora Duncan - Art Quotes

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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.

Isadora Duncan

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

These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.

Isadora Duncan

It is the mission of all art to express the highest and most beautiful ideals of man.

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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.

Isadora Duncan

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