Balanchine Quotes by Twyla Tharp

“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

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

— 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 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

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

— 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

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

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 find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren.

— Twyla Tharp

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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