Art Quote by Twyla Tharp

“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 apart.”

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“A lot of habitually creative people have preparation rituals linked to the setting in which they choose to start their day. By putting themselves into that environment, they start their creative day. The composer Igor Stravinsky did the same thing every morning when he entered his studio to work: He sat at the piano and played a Bach fugue. Perhaps…

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I have learned over the years that you should never save for two meetings what you can accomplish in one.

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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…

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The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.

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This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid.

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I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.

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I had received my first establishment grants in response to applications filed the year before. To the pages of baffling forms I had simply…

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I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren.

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I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.

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I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender…

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There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.

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Destiny, quite often, is a determined parent. Mozart was hardly some naive prodigy who sat down at the keyboard and, with God whispering in his ears, let music flow from his fingertips. It's a nice image for selling tickets to movies, but whether or not God has kissed your brow, you still have to work. Without learning and preparation, you…

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“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and…

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