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.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using the window for a pocket-handkerchief.
Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.
I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.
It is not art in the professionalized sense about which I care, but that which is created sacredly, as a result of a deep inner experience, with all of oneself, and that becomes 'art' in time.
Well, certainly I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.
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