The artist doesn't really think about consequences - he or she does the work, stands back and looks at and thinks, 'Hmm, that could have worked better like this.' But as a person who needs to sell tickets to do the next work, one needs to analyze how it does or does not hit its mark.
Interpretation
Artists create without overthinking the consequences, but must later evaluate their work's reception for practical reasons.
This quote by Twyla Tharp discusses the dichotomy between the creative process of an artist and the commercial aspects of their work. It highlights how artists often engage in their craft instinctively and expressively, without being preoccupied with how the audience might perceive it. However, in order to sustain their careers and continue producing art, they must also critically assess their work's effectiveness and marketability. This balance between pure creativity and the necessity for commercial success is a challenge that many artists face.
In practice
In an art class, discussing the importance of balancing creativity with the commercial aspect of art.
Do I watch dancers as people? Yes, absolutely. Do I watch really good dancers for specifically who they are? Absolutely, because how they move best and how they look best is going to be most familiar to them, and not necessarily to me.
I am still pushing the edge of what my body can do.
No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.
Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you eager but floundering. Combining the two is the essence of the creative life.
I grew up in a drive-in theater, from the time I was 8, working in a snack bar watching four features every week. It was silent theater in the sense that this was a drive-in, which meant that I often saw the films going with no sound. But I learned to tell stories through action.
Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.
At every premiere, I stand in the back, I never sit, worrying. And then maybe I hear them laugh or whatever, and the muscles unclench a little. But always, I feel like it's a fluke, that I'll never be able to do it again.
Every time I write these words they become a taboo,_x000D_ _x000D_ Making sure my punctuation curve, every letter here's true,_x000D_ _x000D_ Living my life in the margin, and that metaphor was proof.
Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own skulls, we can begin to contemplate an art which re-creates the goal of the sorcerer: changing the structure of reality by the manipulation of living symbols ... Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.
I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.
I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.
The essence of style is how you live your life
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