Twyla Tharp Quotes

Memory feeds imagination.

Imagination comes in after we have experience.

It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.

This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions; these are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion.

Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.

We should use our imagination more than our memory.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in such a way that they'd come up with that?

I have a very creative mind, and I'm always looking for new stuff and new things.

Sometimes a crazy idea can make something special.

You know, when you look carefully at stuff that you deal with everyday, applying a little creativity to it and thinking outside the box, it's amazing what you can do.

On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.

I just like to stay creative. Anything that can keep my mind going.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

Ideas come from everywhere - they come from what you see and hear and imagine.

Rain on my head, call that brainstorming.

Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory.

The art and science of memory is about developing the capacity to quickly create images that link disparate ideas. Creativity is the ability to form similar connections between disparate images and to create something new and hurl it into the future so it becomes a poem, or a building, or a dance, or a novel. Creativity is, in a sense, future memory.

Imagination needs food like every dog and every cat and every bird and every fish.

You have to learn to hallucinate.

I have more questions than answers in this world as do most poets and writers. The field of memory we exist in is absolutely encompassing and is both a question and answer. It is memory that provides the heart with impetus, fuels the brain, and propels the corn plant from seed to fruit.

My ideas and creativity are the sources of inspiration for me.

Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.

The entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to the next only by exercising our memories and imaginations, but most of us, in our laziness, rarely exercised these capacities, and forever remained in the same room.