Quote

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.

Twyla Tharp

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Mother
Favorite
Better
Picks
Children
Refuse
Make
Piece
Dances
Like
Worked
Intact
Equal
Completed
Pieces
Refuses
High
Pick

More quotes by Twyla Tharp

Image
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.
Twyla Tharp
Image
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.
Twyla Tharp
Image
A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.
Twyla Tharp
Image
I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.
Twyla Tharp
Image
If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.
Twyla Tharp
Image
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.
Twyla Tharp
Image
Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.
Twyla Tharp
Image
I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.
Twyla Tharp
Image
I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do.
Twyla Tharp
Image
I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.
Twyla Tharp
Image
The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing.
Twyla Tharp
Image
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.
Twyla Tharp
Image
A dancer's life is all about repetition.
Twyla Tharp
Image
Art is an investigation.
Twyla Tharp
Image
I repeat the wake-up, the workout, the quick shower, the breakfast of three hard-boiled egg whites and a cup of coffee, the hour to make my morning calls and deal with correspondence, the two hours of stretching and working out ideas by myself in the studio ... That's my day, every day. A dancer's life is all about repetition.
Twyla Tharp
Image
In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.
Twyla Tharp
Image
I was fortunate to love men, so I could put them on stage and make roles for them, and move through their bodies in a way that they enjoy doing...
Twyla Tharp
Image
Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.
Twyla Tharp
Image
The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally.
Twyla Tharp
Image
In the future, I will make certain that I commit to projects so there's enough breathing space for me to have an emotional life.
Twyla Tharp