Twyla Tharp, #2
Here’s a great quotation from the first chapter, p. 9:
In order to be creative you have to know how to prepare to be creative. … It takes skill to bring something you’ve imagined into the world. … No one is born with that skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blending of learning and reflection that’s both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.
WOW….sounds like me in my intro to my machine quilting class. Toddlers don’t run marathons. They learn to toddle and stumble, then walk, then run (seemingly in a matter of a few days when you’re a tired mom of little ones).
Rita Mae Brown wrote a wonderful book called Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writer’s Manual, about learning to write. She said that people aren’t born neurosurgeons, they learn how to do it, and the same can be said of writing. You can learn how to write, and write well, and she sets out a way to do just that beginning with reading the classics, learning Latin and Greek and (you guessed it) practicing.
In modern US society we are so into instant gratification that many folks have learned that you have to work at something to be good at it. So here’s to working at creativity and art—YEAH!
And..a promise…quilt content and pictures coming tomorrow!