Isadora Duncan Quotes

If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.

The temple of art is built in words.

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

I like to paint nudes mostly.

Every model is a living sculpture - art in-vivo.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

There were a series of moments when I decided that art was important, and it was an important vehicle for me to express my interest in spaces.

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

I've fallen in love with the classical world of imagery, and what I'd like to do now over the last bit of my life is to photograph some nudes.

The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.

Each body has its art.

I went to art school, and every Tuesday and Friday we drew the nude. If you look at Western painting, male and female nudes are in the center of every painting. It's difficult and exciting to draw the nude. Why get so upset about this? It's our duty to break taboos.

I have never discovered that the nude could be studied in any way except the way I have adopted. All the muscles must be pointed out. To do this all the drapery must be removed.

There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.

I have unbounded admiration for the nude. I worship it like a god.

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling... The desire to grasp and be united with another human is so fundamental a part of our nature that our judgement of what is known as 'pure form' is inevitably influenced by it, and one of the difficulties of the nude as a subject for art is that these instincts cannot be hidden.

The sense of the preciousness of the body - vehicle for poetry.

In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.

Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.

The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...