Twyla Tharp Quotes

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• I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.
• Whether it's a painter finding his way each morning to the easel, or a medical researcher returning daily to the laboratory, the routine is as…
• Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.
• When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith.
• In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.
• If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.
• You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.
• Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and…
• I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.
• 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 do…
• I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.
• I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.
• Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.
• If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.
• I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.
• Easily acquired. Inexpensive. Perfectly functional. Portable. Identifiable. Disposable. Eternal enough. These are my criteria for the perfect storage system. And I’ve found the answer in…
• When you're in a groove, you're not spinning your wheels; you're moving forward in a straight and narrow path without pauses or hitches.  You're unwavering,…
• I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.
• A commission is an invitation to fall in love.
• I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.

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