Quote by Isadora Duncan
I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the contin

I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me. – Isadora Duncan

Other quotes by Isadora Duncan

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. – Isadora Duncan

Category:
Art
Read Quote

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. – Isadora Duncan

Category:
Art
Read Quote

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad? – Isadora Duncan

Category:
Madness
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Theater
category

We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself. – Bertolt Brecht

Category:
Theater

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent. – Robert Brustein

Category:
Theater

There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for the amusement of an hour. But now, I have lost the power of looking merely on the surface. – Lydia Maria Child

Category:
Theater

Idealistic producing is safe. Sensibly projected in the theater, the fine thing always does pay and always will. – Minnie Maddern Fiske

Category:
Theater

Random Quotes

Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use. – Reed Hastings

Category:
Technology

Do not mistake probability for truth, for it is a notorious liar. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Truth

Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky yet I know you exist and are no futile dream. – Rosalia de Castro

Category:
Happiness

That government is best which governs least. – Henry David Thoreau

Category:
best