So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don't you will die inside as a person.
Interpretation
Engaging in creative pursuits beyond your main passion is essential for personal fulfillment.
Katherine Dunham emphasizes the importance of nurturing one's creativity in various forms, stating that focusing solely on one career or passion can lead to a lack of personal fulfillment. By encouraging individuals to explore other creative outlets, she suggests that such activities are vital for maintaining a vibrant and thriving inner self.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech at an art workshop.
The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion.
If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.
I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'
My idea of art is, you write something that makes people feel so strongly that they get some conviction about who they want to be or what they want to do. It's morally useful not in a political way, but it makes your heart bigger; it's emotionally and spiritually empowering.
I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.
Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like the mysterious universe itself, the unique, the strange, the unexpected. Numerous observers have testified upon the loneliness of the process.
I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point?
Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.
I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.