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.
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
I wanted to share my doubts and my culinary, amorous, and cosmic experiences. So I wrote 'Like Water for Chocolate,' which is merely the reflection of who I am as a woman, a wife, a mother, a daughter.
Everything a director does must help the story and the performances. Otherwise, it is useless.
There are two kinds of designers: ones who are very happy locked in their office surrounded by their coterie. The last thing they need to do is to go to a trunk show; they'd go running for the hills. I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair.
I was always writing for myself. I wrote what I needed to write and hear - that's what makes it powerful.
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