You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.
With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.
What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.
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.
It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.
So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
My motto - sans limites.
Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?
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.
Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.
The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.
The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.
We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.
The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.
If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it
The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
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.
Movements are as eloquent as words.
These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.
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.
Adieu, mes amis. Je vais à la gloire. Farewell my friends. I go to glory. Isadora Duncan's last words before her scarf caught in a car wheel, breaking her neck.
I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.
La danza è l’eterno risorgere del Sole.