Isadora Duncan

"To seek in nature the fairest forms and find the movement which expresses the soul in these forms- this is the art of the dancer... My inspiration has been drawn from trees, from waves, from clouds, from the sympathies that exist between passion and the storm."

"The movement of waves, of winds, of the earth is ever the same lasting harmony. We do not stand on the beach and inquire of the ocean what was its movement in the past and what will be its movement in the future..."

"I spent long days and nights in the studio seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body's movement."

"The wind? I am the wind. The sea and the moon? I am the sea and the moon. Tears, pain, love, bird-flights? I am all of them. I dance what I am. Sin, prayer, flight, the light that never was on land or sea? I dance what I am."