"Your talent is your secret: you need not share it with anyone else. You can impart of your knowledge, and help others reach the level you have reached. But once you've acquired that which makes you a truly great artist, that which makes you unique, and which no one can explain, it will remain yours & yours alone.
"You've endeavoured with all your strength, your courage and your efforts to become a good technician: you've laboured for perfection, excellence, having but one goal in mind - to achieve virtuosity. To be so much at ease within your art, be it movement, or sound, or creating on a canvas, that you would feel more at ease in that than in your daily life and common activities. And in order to achieve that you've committed to technical work and repetition of the training routine imposed upon you by your discipline.
"It is all well & good; but take time to go into yourself, and find again the burning flame of inspiration which drew you to the art you love in the first place. If it is dance, try to recall the feeling of your first dance move, and your yearning to be perfectly happy & beautiful in its realization; if music, the first sound you heard that made you fall in love with the magic of melody; if painting or any visual art, the first wanderings of your pencil or brush on the white surface, in your longing quest for inspiration in colours, lines & shapes. It is something no years of training can give you: something which any artist who is truly great has developed, that made them stand out from the rest and inspire even those who have never experienced it. That something, they have acquired through breaking free from the boundaries of tradition & technique, because they were able to remove the obstacle.
"There will come a time when you too will be free from technical limits; either because you have removed them through arduous training, or because you have yourself decided to free your mind from these limits, and venture into the great beyond of artistic inspiration, before having reached perfection & excellence. And whether it is because of one reason or the other, does not matter. For venturing where more technically advanced artists have ventured before you, without having their experience, has the merit of courage, which gives you spontaneity and a drive of inspiration which even some of the greatest artists could never even dream of possessing."
- The Living Dancer
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