Quote

I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.

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
Intact
Tyrant
Regarded
Tyrants
Tyranny
Willing
Vision
Keep

More quotes by 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
There's a paradox in the notion that creativity should be a habit. We think of creativity as a way of keeping everything fresh and new, while habit implies routine and repetition. That paradox intrigues me because it occupies the place where creativity and skill rub up against each other.
Twyla Tharp
Image
Limits are a secret blessing, and bounty can be a curse.
Twyla Tharp
Image
My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment, which is a good thing for someone who still thinks of themselves as a very basic American.
Twyla Tharp
Image
I do everything I know how in a dance.
Twyla Tharp
Image
When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.
Twyla Tharp
Image
As people who have commitments and obligations, we try to blockade emotions and go on our course towards excellence, and that's a lie. I've definitely paid a price. Everything is an exchange.
Twyla Tharp
Image
I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.
Twyla Tharp
Image
There are so few people who can really take hold of art and sort of eat and chew it up. Somehow it's got to be held special, sacred in a corner, and if you don't do the same thing with it, if you're not equally reverential, serious, and pompous about it, well, then you're not a great artist. Who needs that?
Twyla Tharp
Image
I’m much stronger than most women. Consequently, when I work with men, or when I’m partnered by men... We can actually go into kinds of movement that haven’t been available before, simply because I’ve strengthened myself as a woman, not because I’ve weakened him.
Twyla Tharp
Image
The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.
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
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
Image
I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.
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 feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.
Twyla Tharp
Image
Energy and time are finite resources conserving them is very important.
Twyla Tharp
Image
The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.
Twyla Tharp
Image
I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.
Twyla Tharp
Image
I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.
Twyla Tharp