Quote

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.

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
Changed
Tested
Often
Methods
Found
Account
Take
Accounts
World
Consequence
Method
Tried
Ruts
Creativity
Sticking

More quotes by Twyla Tharp

Image
I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.
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
Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.
Twyla Tharp
Image
I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.
Twyla Tharp
Image
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.
Twyla Tharp
Image
You only need one good reason to commit to an idea, not four hundred. But if you have four hundred reasons to say yes and one reason to say no, the answer is probably no.
Twyla Tharp
Image
You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.
Twyla Tharp
Image
Mastery is an elusive concept. You never know when you achieve it absolutely and it may not help you to feel you've attained it. We can recognize it more readily in others than we can in ourselves. We have to discover our own definition of it.
Twyla Tharp
Image
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.
Twyla Tharp
Image
I was interested in becoming a show dancer, for which I tried, but I'm not tall enough.
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
There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.
Twyla Tharp
Image
If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion
Twyla Tharp
Image
By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine.
Twyla Tharp
Image
Art is an investigation.
Twyla Tharp
Image
Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.
Twyla Tharp
Image
I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
Twyla Tharp
Image
This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid.
Twyla Tharp
Image
Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.
Twyla Tharp
Image
Alone is a fact, a condition where no one else is around. Lonely is how you feel about that.
Twyla Tharp