Just when you arrive at the apex of your skills, it's time to retire. But as it turned out, I decided that… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft, — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
There's a paradox in the notion that creativity should be a habit. We think of creativity as a way of keeping everything… — 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
You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Never worry that rote exercises aimed at developing skills will suffocate creativity. At the same time, it's important to recognize that demonstrating… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Confidence is a trait that has to be earned honestly and refreshed constantly; you have to work as hard to protect your… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Skill is how you close the gap between what you can see in your mind's eye and what you can produce; the… — 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
