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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

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To seek in nature the fairest forms and to find the movement which expresses the soul of these forms — this is the art of the dancer.

Modern Dancing and Dancers (1912)

The harmony of music exists equally with the harmony of movement in nature.
Man has not invented the harmony of music. It is one of the underlying principles of life.

The Art of the Dance (1928)

But 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, is mere merchandise.

The Art of the Dance (1928)

I could not adopt him so I married him. You know how wonderful he is, like all Russians. He starts reciting verse at two o'clock in the morning.

I could have played the part of Saint Joan. I ought to have played it. I have the ample figure, the hardy physique of a farm-servant. Joan was a buxom creature. Yet she is always played by thin little actresses.

Isadora Duncan: An Intimate Portrait (1928)

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