I fell in love with skateboarding because it was individual; there were no teams, there were no captains, there was nothing to perfect. No style that had to be measured. It was completely opposite of what I saw in so many sports. It was creative. And to this day, that's what I love, that's always kept me back to it because it's endless creation.
Interpretation
Skateboarding represents personal freedom and creativity, devoid of rigid structures.
In this quote, Rodney Mullen expresses his deep affection for skateboarding as a uniquely individualistic activity that allows for endless creativity and self-expression. Unlike traditional sports, which often involve teams, rigid structures, and standards to measure performance, skateboarding emphasizes personal style and innovation. This freedom and lack of constraints are what draw Mullen back to skateboarding continually.
In practice
During an interview about personal passions, one could use this quote to highlight the importance of individuality.
Skateboarding is as much, or more, an art of mode of expression than it is a sport. What skateboarding has given me is precisely that: a form of expression that drew me to it, and, in so doing, I was able to express and be who I wanted to be through it, in a sense.
Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently.
There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.
I have tried to write Paradise Do not move Let the wind speak that is paradise. Let the Gods forgive what I have made Let those I love try to forgive what I have made.
Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.
For me, the Sundance Institute is just an extension of something I believed in, which is creating a mechanism for new voices to have a place to develop and be heard.
Behind the aesthetic form lies the repressed harmony of sensuousness and reason
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