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Art is an investigation.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Art
Investigation

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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.
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Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.
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Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.
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When I'm in the studio, when I'm warm, when I'm what people call improvising, I feel a very special connection. I feel the most right. I don't want to become too mystic about this, but things feel as though they're in the best order at that particular moment.
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when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.
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Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential.
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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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I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies.
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I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.
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That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.
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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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I had always seen myself as a star I wanted to be a galaxy.
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Miloš Forman is a great director Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.
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We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one.
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The blank space can be humbling. But I've faced it my whole professional life. It's my job. It's also my calling. Bottom line: Filling this empty space constitutes my identity.
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With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances.
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I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.
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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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Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.
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I also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I could be. By a gradual process... (I) had invested every bit of my dreams, my hopes, my energies in defining myself as a dancer.
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