Isadora Duncan Quotes

I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.

She danced because she needed to. She needed to say things which could be said in no other way, and she needed to take her meaning and her living from the saying of them.

I believe that dance was the first art. A philosopher has said that dance and architecture were the first arts. I believe that dance was first because it's gesture, it's communication. That doesn't mean it's telling a story, but it means it's communicating a feeling, a sensation to people.

The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.

My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes.

I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.

I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance.

I learned how to communicate and articulate myself from ballet. It's just insane to me, when they don't think of that as a part of our education.

Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.

Man has used human rhythmic movement as raw material out of which to create works of art, as the composer of music uses sound, the sculptor uses stone and wood, the painter his pigments, and the writer - words.

Dancing is another way to communicate. That's what separates The Pussycat Dolls from other groups.

To me, dance is an extraordinary thing, more extraordinary than most people usually think. Dance preceded writing, speaking and music. When mute people speak their body language, it is true speaking rather than handicap, this is the first word and the first writing. Thus to me, the body is fundamental.

Dance is the pure language of the soul - it's been with us from the very beginning.

The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words; finds analysis painful and boring; and is a creature of physical ebullience.

Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

What I couldn't say verbally I was able to express physically through the guitar.

I think a lot of people don't realize that martial arts are just an expression like anything else. It's just that most people are not trained to punch or kick, but you can walk or run or dance, which is also part of expression.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words.

It's one of my strongest dance pieces - having just done Play Without Words which was veering away from a lot of dance - I thought it would be nice to go back to something with almost the most dance I'd done.

It's something that I learned even before I started acting: the movement, the dance of the body, is very important, and it comes before words.

When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really.

Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found. It's like running, it's exertion.

Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression.