Twyla Tharp Quotes

Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas.

I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.

I think it's better to have ideas.

As I get on and films take four years to complete, I tend to have a hankering for very short projects so you can move on to the next idea. It's the ideas I'm interested in. What comes out of your head.

We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

I can't really say - if I've run out of ideas until I've had my next set of ideas.

Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not there to begin with.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff

Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.

I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

Ideas are the root of creation.

That's the buzz for me, the creative process. An idea is never as good as when it's in your head. And then it's just how little you ruin it.

If I have a talent, it lies in the creative process.

The truth is, it is hard to know where ideas come from.

I always got ideas.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works.

I'm a very creative person, and the best part about creation is creating. So I always love to come up with new things, new ideas, new thoughts. I cherish things like that.

"Where do you get your ideas?" That's the one question I'm genuinely sick of being asked, and also genuinely fascinated by. What fascinates me is not that people ask the question, but what kind of answer are they really looking for? Because if I tell them the truth, which is "I make them up," they seem very disappointed. They want to know about the trek I do once a year to the mountain.

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.

I love thinking, I love coming up with great ideas. I just get excited. Sometimes if I get a big idea, I'm just like a kid, like I've found a new toy.