Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms.
Interpretation
Dance is a basic form of expression that underlies all artistic endeavors.
This quote by Twyla Tharp emphasizes the idea that dance serves as a foundational element of artistic expression. It suggests that movement and rhythm are fundamental to creativity, transcending other art forms, and that through dance, artists can convey emotions and stories in a unique and powerful way.
In practice
Including this quote in a speech at a dance recital to highlight the importance of dance as an art form.
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.
It was - I'm very didactic in my lyrics, but I've always been drawn to mock my own emotions, and so I write this very lyric-heavy stuff, which suits theater and comedy much more than it suits pop.
An empty canvas is a living wonder - far lovelier than certain pictures.
When I work on sculpture, I don't have to worry about function. When I work on a piece of architecture, I must think about function all the time.
I think you just have to be yourself instead of catering your sound to a specific audience, make the music you want to make, and the audience will find you.
When we paint, whether it is on our bodies for ceremony or on bark or canvas for the market, we're not just painting for fun or profit, we're painting as we always have done to demonstrate our continuing link with our country and the rights and responsibilities we have to it.
I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.
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