413 Quotes by Twyla Tharp

Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box.

We want our artists to take the mundane materials of our lives, run it through their imaginations, and surprise us.

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.

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

You have to believe there’s something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it.

Without passion, all the skill in world won’t lift you above your craft.

There’s this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.

Like creativity, collaboration is a habit – and one I encourage you to develop.

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.