Twyla Tharp Quotes

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

Audacity is central to everything I do. A lot of times I think my work is about just seeing if I can get away with it.

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.

Living and performing in New York has allowed me to try my weirder and more experimental things.

There was an old brochure for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts with a quote from Robert Redford or someone, that said, "You're only as good as you dare to be bad."

This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

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

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

I'm an artist, and I like the risk - I'm not in it for the sure things.

Balance is the enemy of art.

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.

You have to have an unlimited imagination, an unlimited restraint on your inhibition when you're working. You have to even dare to fail, even in a scene, whatever it is.

When we did 'Breaking the Waves,' he had a sign on the wall that said, 'Make mistakes.'

I think anytime you can show different colors and portray something that you haven't had a chance to do is always really refreshing as an actor.

Fans should be encouraged that I want to try different things.

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.

For me, as an artist, I think you have to experiment.

I think comics do need permission to fail. I think comics do need permission to go up and try stuff.

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.

Creating content and never being afraid to try something new have been my two hallmarks.

I hope for continued bravery and risk-taking for all theatremakers in 2018 and beyond.

I'm not afraid to have a really weird idea or, you know, take a really bad guitar solo.

Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.