Twyla Tharp Quotes

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.

Devotion begins at home, inside your own awareness.

It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and other parts that will play down.

Art, in the first place, has to connect with yourself.

At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.

One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.

To penetrate one's being, one must go armed to the teeth.

'Faith and Will' is aimed at the same readership as 'The Artist's Way.' The book is for spiritual seekers in all walks of life.

To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

As a writer, you rely on whatever makes you up as a person, whether those things are twisted and nasty or otherwise.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

Know that there is so much more to you than your body. It's not just about perfecting the steps; you must trust your instincts to tell deep, emotional stories through the steps that you are performing.

Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself.

After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?

I don't like the idea of spirituality done the way it's done. The only way I could understand it was through creativity, not by going to an Ashram, or finding a guru or joining a temple. I made work out of it.

There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.