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

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
Without
Products
Sales
Work
Difference
Tickets
Differences
Commercial
Quality
Sell
High
Sells
Clear
Product
Art
Exists
Exploitive
May
Intention
Ticket

More quotes by 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
Perfect practice makes perfect.
Twyla Tharp
Image
Once you accept the power of spine in the creative act, you will become much more efficient in your creativity. You will still get lost on occasion, but having a spine will anchor you.
Twyla Tharp
Image
Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.
Twyla Tharp
Image
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
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
Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.
Twyla Tharp
Image
I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.
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
Generosity is luck going in the opposite direction, away from you. If you're generous to someone, if you do something to help him out, you are in effect making him lucky. This is important. It's like inviting yourself into a community of good fortune.
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
The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.
Twyla Tharp
Image
Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.
Twyla Tharp
Image
The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.
Twyla Tharp
Image
Easily acquired. Inexpensive. Perfectly functional. Portable. Identifiable. Disposable. Eternal enough. These are my criteria for the perfect storage system. And I’ve found the answer in the simple file box.
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
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
When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith.
Twyla Tharp
Image
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
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