Twyla Tharp Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Twyla Tharp
Twyla Tharp Famous Quotes & Sayings
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We want our artists to take the mundane materials of our lives, run it through their imaginations, and surprise us.
You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.
When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful.
Failing, and learning from it, is necessary. Unil you've done it, you're missing an important piece of your creative arsenal.
I've read probably 25 or 30 books by Balzac, all of Tolstoy - the novels and letters - and all of Dickens. I learned my craft from these guys.
There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.
I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.
Remember this when you're struggling for a big idea. You're much better off scratching for a small one.
The routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightening bold of inspiration, maybe more. And this routine is available to everyone.
I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.
The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece.
The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.
I always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they're doing, and you leave them alone to do it.
By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine.
My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'
Walt Disney was a master of the human psychology. His sense of timing, sense of speed. In a sense, those cartoons are like Rorschach tests.
This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid.
Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.
Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.
I've always felt compelled to explore range, because, as far as I know, we're only here once. So let's see how much we can encompass.
If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.
I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender stereotypes.
Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential.
I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do.
Too much planning implies you've got it all under control. That's boring, unrealistic, and dangerous.
You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.
Nothing is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way.
I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.
You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas ... when you actually do something physical.
When the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.
Let me put it this way: I would like to direct a successful film. An unsuccessful film I would not like to direct. Films are very difficult.
I'm not interested in seeing dance die. It's not to my advantage. Nor is it to our culture's advantage or anybody else's.
I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.
In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.
Desire is the first thing a modern dancer should have. Skill can be developed. But if you don't have desire as a modern dancer, forget it.
When I look at the people who are the guiding figures in modern dance, I think, 'This does not look to me like the way I want to spend my days.'
Balzac loved courtesans. They were independent women, and in the 19th century, that was a breed that was just evolving.