Better an imperfect dome in Florence than cathedrals in…

“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

When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith.

— Twyla Tharp

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

There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.

— Twyla Tharp

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

I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.

— Twyla Tharp

I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren.

— Twyla Tharp

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

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

This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid.

— Twyla Tharp

The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.

— Twyla Tharp

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

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

I have learned over the years that you should never save for two meetings what you can accomplish in one.

— Twyla Tharp

Things change all the time, so why do people make such a philosophical to-do that things are constantly in transition?

— Twyla Tharp