"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"
- Katherine Dunham
About this Quote
This quote by Katherine Dunham motivates us to explore our imaginative abilities and to begin something brand-new that uses them. She speaks from experience, having been a dancer and a painter. She suggests that if we don't utilize our imaginative capabilities, we will die within as an individual. This suggests that imagination is important to our health and wellbeing and that it is necessary to discover ways to express ourselves. It is a pointer that we need to not be afraid to try something brand-new and to explore our imaginative potential. By doing so, we can find pleasure and satisfaction in our lives.
This quote is written / told by Katherine Dunham between June 22, 1909 and May 21, 2006. She was a famous Dancer from USA.
The author also have 23 other quotes.
"I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays"
"When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right"
"There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously"
