The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
Isadora Duncan
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More quotes by Isadora Duncan
- 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.
- 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.
- What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.
- The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
- So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.