Isadora Duncan meets Victor Seroff

"He's a genius," said Isadora when Seroff finished playing. "Doesn't anybody know he's a genius? I have a nose for genius." She turned to her hostess. "Is he your lover?" she asked.
"Why no, Miss Duncan, he is my guest."
"He must be somebody's lover?" Isadora said, looking around the room. "Well, if he is nobody's lover, then I will take him for myself. I always take genius for myself. Genius needs me."

Peter Kurth,  Isadora: a sensational life (Abacus ed., 2001)



Isadora Duncan on the Lido, Venice, in 1903 ©R. Duncan