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title: "2 Footprint Quotes By Twyla Tharp"
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> [I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you don’t count the thousands of skid marks and footprints left there by dancers rehearsing. Other than the mirrors,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/twyla-tharp/i-walk-into-a-large-white-room-it-s-a-dance-studio-in-midtown/)

[Twyla Tharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/twyla-tharp/)

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> [Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/twyla-tharp/traveling-the-paths-of-greatness-even-in-someone-else-s-footprints-is/)

[Twyla Tharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/twyla-tharp/)

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## More 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/twyla-tharp/a-lot-of-habitually-creative-people-have-preparation-rituals-linked/)

[Twyla Tharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/twyla-tharp/)

> [I have learned over the years that you should never save for two meetings what you can accomplish in one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/twyla-tharp/i-have-learned-over-the-years-that-you-should-never-save-for-two/)

[Twyla Tharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/twyla-tharp/i-always-find-that-the-best-collaborations-are-when-you-work-with/)

[Twyla Tharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/twyla-tharp/i-don-t-mean-this-but-i-m-going-to-say-it-anyway-i-don-t-really-think/)

[Twyla Tharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/twyla-tharp/)

> [The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/twyla-tharp/the-art-of-these-fifties-movies-was-in-sustaining-forever-the-moment/)

[Twyla Tharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/twyla-tharp/)

> [This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/twyla-tharp/this-is-not-a-pleasant-route-for-many-young-people-to-consider-you/)

[Twyla Tharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/twyla-tharp/i-often-say-that-in-making-dances-i-can-make-a-world-where-i-think/)

[Twyla Tharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/twyla-tharp/i-had-received-my-first-establishment-grants-in-response-to/)

[Twyla Tharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/twyla-tharp/)

> [I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/twyla-tharp/i-find-the-aesthetics-of-the-20th-century-hopelessly-barren/)

[Twyla Tharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/twyla-tharp/)

> [I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/twyla-tharp/i-don-t-think-that-scheduling-is-uncreative-i-think-that-structure-is/)

[Twyla Tharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/twyla-tharp/i-have-always-felt-one-of-the-things-dance-should-do-its-business/)

[Twyla Tharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/twyla-tharp/)

> [There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/twyla-tharp/there-really-is-nothing-i-ever-had-access-to-that-i-didn-t-appreciate/)

[Twyla Tharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/twyla-tharp/destiny-quite-often-is-a-determined-parent-mozart-was-hardly-some/)

[Twyla Tharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/twyla-tharp/)

> [When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/twyla-tharp/when-it-all-comes-together-a-creative-life-has-the-nourishing-power/)

[Twyla Tharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/twyla-tharp/)

> [Things change all the time, so why do people make such a philosophical to-do that things are constantly in transition?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/twyla-tharp/things-change-all-the-time-so-why-do-people-make-such-a-philosophical/)

[Twyla Tharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/twyla-tharp/)

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