What's the point if you make something that's not you, and you're successful? You have to perform it the rest of your life.
Gloria EstefanRead
Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.
Interpretation
Artists face risks in their creative journeys, often encountering resistance from others who prefer them to remain unchanged.
In this quote, Gloria Estefan highlights the inherent risks that artists take when they choose to express themselves and evolve their work. While some individuals may prefer an artist to maintain a consistent style or message, true growth often requires the courage to step out of oneβs comfort zone and take creative risks, despite the potential pushback from others.
In practice
This quote could be used in an art class to encourage students to take creative risks.
What's the point if you make something that's not you, and you're successful? You have to perform it the rest of your life.
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Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another.
Love you all the time, 'cause when I close my eyes, I still can see your smile, it's bright enough to light my life
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Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline.
I'm not interested in seeing dance die. It's not to my advantage. Nor is it to our culture's advantage or anybody else's.
We go to the theater to be entertained, but if what is left after you watch the movie is a sort of eye-opening perspective on some social issues, then it can be a really powerful piece of art.
History has proven that art depicting black people cannot be disentangled from the political implications that such art has on their lives. As Africans were being stripped from the continent and sailed across the Atlantic to the Western world, depictions of black people in Western art changed in order to further render them racialized caricatures.
Instead of noting down things Iβm unlikely to forget, I will write a poem. Even if I have never written one before and even if I never do so again, I will at least know that I once had the courage to put my feelings into words.
I put one questions. For whom I compose? My answer is I wanted to address to all my people. And if I write music for the Greek people because I'm Greek, I compose for all the people.
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