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I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
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Portland
Indiana
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The way I enjoyed spending time most was dancing. That's from the time I was a very small child, When I was 4 or 5 years old, I remember already having a regime. It was the way I always identified myself.
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In creative endeavors luck is a skill.
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I can't emphasize this idea enough. Getting involved with your collaborator's problems almost always distracts you from your own. That can be tempting. That can be a relief. But it usually leads to disaster.
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Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background.
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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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Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
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The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
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The notion of the hero as outsider, as alien, is forget it, over, done with. It's not about being against society anymore. It's about standing there, holding something up. It's not pulling away.
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My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.
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Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.
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I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
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The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.
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You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.
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Nobody likes to see that which they've invested in disappear from the face of the earth before they've even died. This is not cool. We can now see what the landmarks, in fact are.
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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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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'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
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Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.
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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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A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.
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