Twyla Tharp Quotes

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

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  Music, Dance, Running

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• More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into account how you or the world has changed.

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  Creativity, World, Ruts

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• You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.

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  Discipline, Mood

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• I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.

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  Inspirational, Air, Ideas

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• The irony of multitasking is that it's exhausting: when you're doing two or three things simultaneously, you use more energy than the sum of energy required to do each task independently. You're also cheating yourself because your're not doing anything excellently. You're compromising your virtuosity. In the words of T. S. Elliot, you're 'distracted from distractions by distractions'.

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  Cheating, Two, Energy

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

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• Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won.

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  Reading, Hero, Creativity

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

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• You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.

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  Hard Work, Skills, May

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

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• Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.

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  Happiness, Creativity, Entrepreneur

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

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• I had always seen myself as a star; I wanted to be a galaxy.

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  Stars, Wanted, Galaxy

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

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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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• 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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