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Art Quotes by Twyla Tharp
- Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.
- Art is running away without ever leaving home.
- It takes skill to bring something you've imagined into the world: to use words to create believable lives, to select the colors and textures of…
- Confidence is a trait that has to be earned honestly and refreshed constantly; you have to work as hard to protect your skills as you…
- Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be apparent to the…
- Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.
- 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.
- 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.
- Whenever I feel I'm working in a groove it's invariably because I feel I am being the benefactor in the situation rather than the beneficiary.…
- Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
- I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to…
- Art is an investigation.
- 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 far…
- I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
- Creativity is an act of defiance.
- Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them. What we're talking about here…
- Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms.
- When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art.
More Art Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't… — Arthur Ashe
- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov