Twyla Tharp Quotes About Creativity

Quotes about: Creativity

• The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.

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  Creativity, Nuts, Innovation

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• There's a paradox in the notion that creativity should be a habit. We think of creativity as a way of keeping everything fresh and new, while habit implies routine and repetition. That paradox intrigues me because it occupies the place where creativity and skill rub up against each other.

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  Inspirational, Creativity, Thinking

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

• 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

• Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.

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  Creativity, Self, Solitude

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

• 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

• The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.

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  Creativity, Bad Ass, People

• 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

• Everything that happens in my day is a transaction between the external world and my internal world. 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. Without the time and effort invested in getting ready to create, you can be hit by a thunderbolt and it'll just leave you stunned.

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  Inspirational, Creativity, Effort

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

• Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.

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  Creativity, Feelings, Fiction

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

• I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.

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  Mother, Creativity, Creative

• Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In order to be creative you have to know how to prepare to be creative.

  Twyla Tharp

  Writing, Creativity, Order

• 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

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

  Twyla Tharp

  Creativity, Thinking, Structure

• When creativity has become your habit; when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others; when you understand the value and place of validation, continuity, and purity of purpose, then you're on the way to an artist's ultimate goal; the achievement of mastery.

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  Creativity, Artist, Validation

• Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.

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  Passion, Creativity, Desire

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

• Once you accept the power of spine in the creative act, you will become much more efficient in your creativity. You will still get lost on occasion, but having a spine will anchor you.

  Twyla Tharp

  Creativity, Power, Anchors

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

• Never worry that rote exercises aimed at developing skills will suffocate creativity. At the same time, it's important to recognize that demonstrating great technique is not the same as being creative.

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  Creativity, Exercise, Skills

• The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.

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  Creativity, Dark, Sight

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

• In the end, there is no ideal condition for creativity. What works for one person is useless for another. The only criterion is this: Make it easy on yourself. Find a working environment where the prospect of wrestling with your muse doesn't scare you, doesn't shut you down. It should make you want to be there, and once you find it, stick with it. To get the creative habit, you need a working environment that's habit-forming. All preferred working states, no matter how eccentric, have one thing in common: When you enter into them, they compel you to get started.

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  Creativity, Wrestling, Creative

• You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft.

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  Creativity, Crafts, Kidding Yourself

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

• Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying to solve a problem; it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.

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  Children, Creativity, Artist

• 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.

  Twyla Tharp

  Art, Real, Creativity

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