Quote

The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.

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
Art
Fifties
Sustaining
Sex
Movies
Movie
Forever
Moment
Moments

More quotes by Twyla Tharp

Image
Art is an investigation.
Twyla Tharp
Image
I was interested in becoming a show dancer, for which I tried, but I'm not tall enough.
Twyla Tharp
Image
Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.
Twyla Tharp
Image
I had received my first establishment grants in response to applications filed the year before. To the pages of baffling forms I had simply attached a handwritten note saying, 'I make dances, not applications. Send the money. Love, Twyla.
Twyla Tharp
Image
In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.
Twyla Tharp
Image
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
Twyla Tharp
Image
I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
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
Image
I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.
Twyla Tharp
Image
when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.
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
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
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
Image
Creativity is an act of defiance.
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
Image
I was valedictorian. Did I enjoy going to school? I hated it. It wasn't a choice on my part, it was expected.
Twyla Tharp
Image
Skill is how you close the gap between what you can see in your mind's eye and what you can produce the more skill you have, the more sophisticated and accomplished your ideas can be. With absolute skill comes absolute confidence.
Twyla Tharp
Image
I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
Twyla Tharp
Image
Art is running away without ever leaving home.
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