The audience will find the artist who matches their interests. If you're not being true to yourself, your audience can't find you, because there's a wall up between who you are and who they're seeing.
Interpretation
Being authentic is crucial for connecting with your audience as an artist.
This quote by Hilary Hahn emphasizes the importance of authenticity in art. When an artist is not true to themselves, they create a barrier that prevents their true self from being seen, making it difficult for the audience to connect with them. Therefore, embracing one's genuine identity allows for a more profound relationship with the audience, facilitating a connection based on shared interests and emotions.
In practice
In a speech about creativity, you might say, 'Remember, the audience will find the artist who matches their interests.'
What I do is creative. It doesn't seem like that when I'm playing a piece that was written in the past, but the score is just the outline and everything in it is relative. The key is to make this piece written by someone else belong to you and then connect to the audience.
None of the films I've done was designed for a mass audience, except for 'Indiana Jones.' Nobody in their right mind thought 'American Graffiti' or 'Star Wars' would work.
Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader.
I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique.
I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'
I am increasingly attracted to restricting possibility in the poem by inflicting a form upon yourself. Once you impose some formal pattern on yourself, then the poem is pushing back. I think good poems are often the result of that kind of wrestling with the form.
For me, the importance in learning about the dance is using it as a voice. It's not about a step, it's about a way to express oneself.
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