In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both… — 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
Everything that happens in my day is a transaction between the external world and my internal world. Everything is raw material. Everything… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
There's a paradox in the notion that creativity should be a habit. We think of creativity as a way of keeping everything… — 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
