Siobhan Davies Quotes

I think I have allowed my voice to experiment with the different genres. And I think that I have just really enjoyed the journey of getting to know my voice and seeing what it's capable of, what it's not capable of.

I think it's natural for an artist to explore as they evolve.

When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

I had no precise plan when I started 'Electronica,' but I think it has been a very positive journey for me.

I had really great art classes. Really great art teachers. Arts played a very important role in having a place to express yourself uniquely.

Wherever the wind blows me, I'll go! My eventual goal is to have enough experience to produce something on my own.

Memphis held onto me until I was far enough along in my art and then it let me go.

Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.

As an artist, you want to have an experience. What you need to experience changes over the course of your life because your life changes.

I'm singing and dancing and playing guitar. I really enjoy pushing myself into different aspects. I'm not going to do this for the rest of my life, but I want to keep challenging myself. And if I'm fearful of something I definitely want to step into it and see how good or bad I am at it.

Traveling changed my personality and gave me ability to do the music I do and to think in a certain way that everything can be possible.

When I was young, I couldn't think about ballet because I had to focus on my own field. But once you secure your own performance area, you can indulge yourself in different territories. Fashion is one. And ballet is absolutely a fantasy, because it deals with the bodies in a different way.

The moving toward one's inner self is a long pilgrimage for a painter. It offers many temporary successes and high points, but impels him on toward the more adequate image.

Making dances is an act of progress; it is an act of growth, an act of music, an act of teaching, an act of celebration, an act of joy.

Maybe certain aspects of what I was doing were reacting against what was happening or what people said, too. That's something that happens when you're starting out. After some time goes by and you get a little perspective, you realize that you don't need to react. You can just carry on with what you're doing. That took me a long time figure out; I've only gotten to that point in the last five or 10 years.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.

An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint.

Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.

The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. No one can proxy for us a masterpiece of loving or experience for us the rapture of art or launch for us book ships freighted with sweet bread to strengthen man. As of old we must be our own seers, musicians and explorers, and to an extent vaster than ever before.

If you are a good writer you use your life experience to do something different than someone who is 20-years-old can do. That is where you get your power. That is our power as a group. I am not trying to make the same music I made 10 years ago.

The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.