Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
One clear difference between art and commercial work is that commercial work is exploitive: the work may be high quality but the intention is to sell product or tickets. Art exists with or without ticket sales.
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
Differences
Commercial
Quality
Sell
High
Sells
Clear
Product
Art
Exists
Exploitive
May
Intention
Ticket
Without
Products
Sales
Work
Difference
Tickets
More quotes by Twyla Tharp
You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.
Twyla Tharp
Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential.
Twyla Tharp
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
I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.
Twyla Tharp
When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.
Twyla Tharp
The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
Twyla Tharp
I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving.
Twyla Tharp
Art is an investigation.
Twyla Tharp
Whether it's a painter finding his way each morning to the easel, or a medical researcher returning daily to the laboratory, the routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightning bolt of inspiration, maybe more.
Twyla Tharp
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
I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.
Twyla Tharp
Whether or not God has kissed your brow, you still have to work. Without learning and preparation, you won't know how to harness the power of that kiss.
Twyla Tharp
In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.
Twyla Tharp
Miloš Forman is a great director Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.
Twyla Tharp
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
when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.
Twyla Tharp
I think that probably the moments of discovery do come from a place that is not totally organized. Order is something that we already know about. Discoveries are in a place we don't already know about.
Twyla Tharp
My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.
Twyla Tharp
I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies.
Twyla Tharp
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
