Quote

The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.

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
Never
Fundamentals
Granted
Ones
Take
Great

More quotes by Twyla Tharp

Image
Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.
Twyla Tharp
Image
I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.
Twyla Tharp
Image
In the end all collaborations are love stories.
Twyla Tharp
Image
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.
Twyla Tharp
Image
Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.
Twyla Tharp
Image
The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
Twyla Tharp
Image
My greatest fear in working is always the end. Lately I have taken to tricking myself into finishing by leaving a hole in the middle somewhere, then stitching the two pieces together - the Union Pacific approach.
Twyla Tharp
Image
Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box
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
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.
Twyla Tharp
Image
Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.
Twyla Tharp
Image
We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one.
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
In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.
Twyla Tharp
Image
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
Image
We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.
Twyla Tharp
Image
I began ear training when I was about six months old. My mother was a concert pianist, and she started all of her children with music before they were a year old. Then she began to see that I had a musical gift...
Twyla Tharp
Image
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
Image
Don’t sign on for more problems than you must. Resist the temptation to involve yourself in other people’s zones of expertise and responsibility. Monitor troublesome situations if you need to, but don’t insert yourself unless you’re running out of time and a solution is nowhere in sight. In short, stifle your inner control freak.
Twyla Tharp
Image
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.
Twyla Tharp