Anne Bogart Quotes (Author of A Director Prepares)
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Anne Bogart Quotes (Author of A Director Prepares)
As Amelia Earhart once said: “The most difficult thing is the decision to act.” Though we may not have all the information at hand, we can choose movement instead of stagnation, exploration instead of paralysis.
By acting, we make things concrete; action breeds motivation, not the other way around.
Art requires access to the imagination, a notoriously difficult place to visit. The imagination fuels an idea. The artist acts urgently, often impulsively, on that idea but brings conscious rigor to the evaluation of what the imagination has spewed. Ultimately, experience, intellect, insight, and drive enable them to shape the work and then to edit
... See morea letter written by choreographer Martha Graham to her student Agnes de Mille, who had asked to resign from her dance troupe because she felt inadequate: There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action. And because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique and if you block
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