Twyla Tharp Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.”

“When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art.”

“You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical.”

“Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms.”

“I do at least 75 push-ups a day.”

“I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone's exhausted. Get focused, do it!”

“I look for dancers who have all the technique in the world. But they must be dancers who are open-minded, who are willing to forget that they know anything. They also have to be gorgeous; they must have a clear image of themselves and strong personalities.”

“To make real change, you have to be well anchored - not only in the belief that it can be done, but also in some pretty real ways about who you are and what you can do.”

“'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously about surviving with other people.”

“In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.”