Creative Quotations from Isadora Duncan (1877-1927)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Isadora Duncan
(1877-1927) born on May 27

US interpretative dancer. She was among the first to raise interpretive dance to the status of creative art.

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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.

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

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

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.

I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"My Life," Introductino, 1927.
R:	"Testament Politique," "Maxims," 1641.
A:	In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994.
N:	In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994.
K:	"My Life," ch. 5, 1927.