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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.

Twyla Tharp

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Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
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Indiana
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I don't believe in rushing and saying this is done and over with. That form of rebellion doesn't make sense to me. I've always attempted to familiarize myself with the traditions, and consider that a responsibility of the artist.
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I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.
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Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.
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I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.
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I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
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Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.
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I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender stereotypes.
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Miloš Forman is a great director Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.
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The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.
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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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I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
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By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine.
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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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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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There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.
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Art is an investigation.
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The more you know, the better you can imagine.
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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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Confidence is a trait that has to be earned honestly and refreshed constantly you have to work as hard to protect your skills as you did to develop them. . . The one thing that creative souls around the world have in common is that they all have to practice to maintain their skills. Art is a vast democracy of habit.
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I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
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