Twyla Tharp Quotes

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

It takes skill to bring something you've imagined into the world: to use words to create believable lives, to select the colors and textures of paint to represent a haystack at sunset, to combine ingredients to make a flavorful dish. No one is born with that skill. It is developed through exercise, through repitition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time. . . . 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.

Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath, see it from one view, hold it against the sky, imagine it any size I like, and really be in control almost like God creating something.

Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.

Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.

Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before.

Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.

Self-expression without craft is for toddlers.

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.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

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

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

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