I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Generosity is luck going in the opposite direction, away from you. If you're generous to someone, if you do something to help… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I cannot overstate how much a generous spirit contributes to good luck. Look at the luckiest people around you, the ones you… — 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
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
Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
A tough manager will have realistic quotas for his employees that he keeps to himself and aggressively stretch quotas, anywhere from ten… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
You only need one good reason to commit to an idea, not four hundred. But if you have four hundred reasons to… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
There are so few people who can really take hold of art and sort of eat and chew it up. Somehow it's… — 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 Image
I have learned over the years that you should never save for two meetings what you can accomplish in one. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
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 Image
There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
