Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft, — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
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… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done… — 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
More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into… — 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
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
When you're in a groove, you're not spinning your wheels; you're moving forward in a straight and narrow path without pauses or… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I look for dancers who have all the technique in the world. But they must be dancers who are open-minded, who are… — 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
It takes skill to bring something you've imagined into the world: to use words to create believable lives, to select the colors… — 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
