Twyla Tharp Quotes

I believe poetry has very little to do with memory.

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.

All art is a kind of exploring. To discover and reveal is the way every artist sets about his business.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

True creativity often starts where language ends.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

Art is an investigation.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

Our world is enriched when coders and marketers dazzle us with smartphones and tablets, but, by themselves, they are just slabs. It is the music, essays, entertainment and provocations that they access, spawned by the humanities, that animate them - and us.

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

I've always had an interest in design, and I have always loved creating things.

If I were to try and find a unifying emotion that kept me calm and focused while I was dancing or writing or solving a math problem, I think the one unifying thing about all those that keeps my interest is creativity.

Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's about imagination. Doing stuff from your heart.