Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.
Twyla Tharp
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Twyla Tharp
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: July 1
Ballet Dancer
Choreographer
Dancer
Writer
Portland
Indiana
Scheduling
Required
Structure
Creativity
Think
Thinking
Uncreative
More quotes by Twyla Tharp
I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.
Twyla Tharp
I've always had to keep the walls in place, and the only way to do that is to keep yourself constantly occupied... From the time I was 8 years old, until I went to college, I worked... There was no social life.
Twyla Tharp
You double your intensity with skill.
Twyla Tharp
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
Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be apparent to the audience. But you need it at the start of the creative process to guide you and keep you going.
Twyla Tharp
Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.
Twyla Tharp
You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.
Twyla Tharp
If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.
Twyla Tharp
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
I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.
Twyla Tharp
Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.
Twyla Tharp
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.
Twyla Tharp
The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.
Twyla Tharp
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.
Twyla Tharp
I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.
Twyla Tharp
The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.
Twyla Tharp
Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.
Twyla Tharp
Never worry that rote exercises aimed at developing skills will suffocate creativity. At the same time, it's important to recognize that demonstrating great technique is not the same as being creative.
Twyla Tharp
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
The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
Twyla Tharp