Twyla Tharp Quotes

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No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.

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Inspirational, Exercise, Reflection

Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.

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Inspirational, Ability, Uncomfortable

Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.

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Giving Up, Life Lesson, Failure

"A Conversation With Choreographer Twyla Tharp". Interview with David Shenk, www.theatlantic.com. February 26, 2010.

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Creativity is an act of defiance.

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Art, Writing, Creativity

Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.

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Art, Creativity, Habit

Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible than dance, yet no art is more mystifying in the public imagination.

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Dance, Running, Art

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Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

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Music, Dance, Running

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Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you eager but floundering. Combining the two is the essence of the creative life.

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Passion, Essence, Skills

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Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.

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Ideas, Littles, Bigs

Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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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 audience. But you need it at the start of the creative process to guide you and keep you going.

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Art, Creative, Needs

Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion

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Erosion, Interesting, Chance

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Creativity requires quite a lot of faith - not just in yourself but also in the knowledge that you have the right to proceed, even when you may not know exactly what you're doing.

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Creativity, May, Knows

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Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.

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Life And Love, Moving, Life Is

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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 is metaphor. Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art, if it is not art itself. Metaphor is our vocabulary for connecting what we are experiencing now with what we have experienced before. It's not only how we express what we remember , it's how we interpret it - for ourselves and others.

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Art, Creativity, Talking

Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.

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Humor, Deep Thought, Ifs

Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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Dancers are allowed, indeed encouraged, to remain children forever.

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Dance, Children, Dancer

Twyla Tharp (1992). “Push Comes to Shove”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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When you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position.

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Brain, Alive, Body

Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.....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 begin their creative day.

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Order, People, Creative

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Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.

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Judgment

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The more you know, the better you can imagine.

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Imagine, Knows

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Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.

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Passion, Skills, World

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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.

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Art, Bridges, Skills

Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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Art is an investigation.

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Art, Investigation, Art Is

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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While most people in the arts think they have to be constantly looking forward to be edgy and creative....the real secret of creativity is to go back and remember.

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Art, Real, Creativity

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Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box

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Thinking, Conformity, Boxes

Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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Born: July 1, 1941
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