We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The only way to know the truth of a movement is to do it on your own body. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
When you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I was fortunate to love men, so I could put them on stage and make roles for them, and move through their… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I'm obviously always interested in the dancer who's an athlete and vice versa. I expect dancers to be in condition like an… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
To make real change, you have to be well anchored - not only in the belief that it can be done, but… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The way I enjoyed spending time most was dancing. That's from the time I was a very small child, When I was… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Let me put it this way: I would like to direct a successful film. An unsuccessful film I would not like to… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I've always had to keep the walls in place, and the only way to do that is to keep yourself constantly occupied...… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
It's vital to establish some rituals-automatic but decisive patterns of behavior-at the beginning of the creative process, when you are most at… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Whether it's a painter finding his way each morning to the easel, or a medical researcher returning daily to the laboratory, the… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
When creativity has become your habit; when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others; when you understand… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
To survive, you've got to keep wheedling your way. You can't just sit there and fight against odds when it's not going… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I… — 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
Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them. What we're… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, I think we've probably all had the experience that if we're in a relationship where one of the partners is doing… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
When I say I can see through clothes, sometimes I try to use it as an X-ray vision to look into the… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
When I look at the people who are the guiding figures in modern dance, I think, 'This does not look to me… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Nothing is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way. — 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
I have learned over the years that you should never save for two meetings what you can accomplish in one. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share
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
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
The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share
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
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
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
I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share
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
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 Copy Share
When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share
Things change all the time, so why do people make such a philosophical to-do that things are constantly in transition? — Twyla Tharp Copy Share
