In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Failing, and learning from it, is necessary. Unil you've done it, you're missing an important piece of your creative arsenal. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightening bold of inspiration, maybe more. And this routine… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Whether it's a painter finding his way each morning to the easel, or a medical researcher returning daily to the laboratory, the… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
After so many years, I've learned that being creative is a full-time job with its own daily patterns. That's why writers, for… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
While most people in the arts think they have to be constantly looking forward to be edgy and creative…the real secret of… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Once you accept the power of spine in the creative act, you will become much more efficient in your creativity. You will… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
It's vital to establish some rituals-automatic but decisive patterns of behavior-at the beginning of the creative process, when you are most at… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
In the end, there is no ideal condition for creativity. What works for one person is useless for another. The only criterion… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
After so many years, I've learned that being creative is a full-time job with its own daily patterns. That's why writers, for… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The last two - distractions and fears - are the dangerous ones. They're the habitual demons that invade the launch of any… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Confidence is a trait that has to be earned honestly and refreshed constantly; you have to work as hard to protect your… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative…A lot of habitually creative people have preparation… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Never worry that rote exercises aimed at developing skills will suffocate creativity. At the same time, it's important to recognize that demonstrating… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“A lot of habitually creative people have preparation rituals linked to the setting in which they choose to start their day. By putting themselves… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share
I have learned over the years that you should never save for two meetings what you can accomplish in one. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share
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… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share
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… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share
The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share
This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share
I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share
I had received my first establishment grants in response to applications filed the year before. To the pages of baffling forms I had simply… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share
I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share
I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share
Destiny, quite often, is a determined parent. Mozart was hardly some naive prodigy who sat down at the keyboard and, with God whispering in… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share
When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share
Things change all the time, so why do people make such a philosophical to-do that things are constantly in transition? — Twyla Tharp Copy Share
