When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith.
Interpretation
Creativity provides essential nourishment and sustenance akin to food, love, and faith.
In this quote, Twyla Tharp emphasizes the profound and essential role that creativity plays in our lives. Just as food sustains our bodies and love and faith nourish our souls, a creative life enriches our experiences and well-being, suggesting that creativity is fundamental to a fulfilling existence.
In practice
In a motivational speech about pursuing passion and creativity.
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.
As if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose.
The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.
Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.
I love music, I've always done music, felt it on a spiritual level and I write for myself and not anybody else.
What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.
What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life.
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