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Creativity Quotes by Twyla Tharp

38 Creativity quotes by Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp says that structure is not the enemy of creativity; it is the kitchen where ideas are cooked. She compares a creative life to food, love, and faith that nourish us. The quotes remind us that creativity needs discipline, that people may laugh, and that anyone can be creative in work or play.

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You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft.

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Creativity is an act of defiance.

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You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.

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In creative endeavors luck is a skill.

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

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

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In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.

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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

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Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.

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I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.

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Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.

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if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives.

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Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see…

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'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously…

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Creativity requires quite a lot of faith - not just in yourself but also in the knowledge that you have the right…

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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In…

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Once you accept the power of spine in the creative act, you will become much more efficient in your creativity. You will…

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Whether it's a painter finding his way each morning to the easel, or a medical researcher returning daily to the laboratory, the…

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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…

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The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of…

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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…

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Everything that happens in my day is a transaction between the external world and my internal world. Everything is raw material. Everything…

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When creativity has become your habit; when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others; when you understand…

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In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative…A lot of habitually creative people have preparation…

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Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them. What we're…

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There's a paradox in the notion that creativity should be a habit. We think of creativity as a way of keeping everything…

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“A lot of habitually creative people have preparation rituals linked to the setting in which they choose to start their day. By…

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In the end, there is no ideal condition for creativity. What works for one person is useless for another. The only criterion…

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“When I walk into [the studio] I am alone, but I am alone with my body, ambition, ideas, passions, needs, memories, goals,…

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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.

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The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.

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Failing, and learning from it, is necessary. Unil you've done it, you're missing an important piece of your creative arsenal.

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Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying…

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While most people in the arts think they have to be constantly looking forward to be edgy and creative…the real secret of…

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Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.

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Never worry that rote exercises aimed at developing skills will suffocate creativity. At the same time, it's important to recognize that demonstrating…

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More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into…

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Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out…

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

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

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