Twyla Tharp Quotes

The message is risk, really risk. Be yourself. Create.

You can't ever create defensively. You just have to create the next thing that really speaks to you.

Balance is the enemy of art.

You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you've gotten some approval for them. Then it's too late! Follow your gut. That's hard to do, but the only way to be original.

I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

I love Lady Gaga. She's not afraid to take risks and be herself.

Each single gesture of art must be daring. One must not be concerned with the side-effects.

I really think that being yourself, being original, being outside the box is starting to be appealing to people.

I don't mind being unlikely. I'd rather that than be predictable.

We stand for creativity and pushing boundaries and having fun with one's music.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.

What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.

Discover your own style. Don't try to repeat what has already been written - have the courage to do your own thing and don't be afraid to do something different.

I just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced.

Everything that I've ever made in my life is from my instinct.

I'm so happy when someone does something original, and there's no focus group or planning committee. If the cinema doesn't get an injection of that once in a while, we're in trouble.

For writers: don't hold back. Be weird. Be sentimental. Be melodramatic. Take the risk of being not-cool, not-hip.

And hip-hop is about style and finesse and being creative and different, and to do that you have to be ballsy enough to not do what everybody else does.

If you are not frightened, you are not original.

Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.

Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way.

I don't want to get myself in trouble - and I don't think I'm super important or anything - but I think it's so funny that when you look at the business and the way that people make decisions in their lives, whether they're in art or music or they're in industry, they forget that being unique is the answer.