413 Quotes by Twyla Tharp

When you’re in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.

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.

Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don’t often get the chance to see how close they can come.

A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I’m beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.

Concentrate: you can’t have it all.

When creativity has become your habit; when you’ve learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others; when you understand the value and place of validation, continuity, and purity of purpose, then you’re on the way to an artist’s ultimate goal; the achievement of mastery.

In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there’s not the desperate urgency of when you’re on a clock.

A dancer’s life is all about repetition.

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.