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" No artist is well served in thinking what will happen to their works. The best one can hope is that they'll enter the mainstream, and people will pull bits and pieces from them. "

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" I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly. "

Twyla Tharp

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" I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to. "

" I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury. "

" I'm not satisfied sitting in just the world of abstract work. "

" This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age. "

" 'Bum's Rush' is a piece about timing, and everything that's in the piece needs to be with the piece. If people are missing, or marking, or unable to use their voices, the impulses that prompt the action are lost, and its logic crumbles. "

" I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart. "

" People often say to me, 'I don't know anything about dance.' I say, 'Stop. You got up this morning, and you're walking. You are an expert.' "

" Counterpoint is a component that gives real energy, and it is about optimism. "

" Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. "

" Broadway has some very tight expectations as to what a show is. "

" When I say I can see through clothes, sometimes I try to use it as an X-ray vision to look into the dancer and see who this dancer is right now, at this exact moment in time. I live inside them in a way. "

" A commission is an invitation to fall in love. "

" Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits. "

" The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language. "

" Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them. "

" In circuses, there is a lot of magic. Things become other things. "

" There are very few critics who have historical context or authority. "

" If I didn't believe in myself as a dancer, I wouldn't choreograph. "

" Unfortunately, I think we've probably all had the experience that if we're in a relationship where one of the partners is doing it 'my' way, that relationship is not going to survive. "

" It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience. "

" There is a moral dimension, for me, in anything that's any good. "

Twyla Tharp

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" To make real change, you have to be well anchored - not only in the belief that it can be done, but also in some pretty real ways about who you are and what you can do. "

" It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer. "

" The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts. "

" When I look at the people who are the guiding figures in modern dance, I think, 'This does not look to me like the way I want to spend my days.' "

" I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving. "

" I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity. "

" The artist doesn't really think about consequences - he or she does the work, stands back and looks at and thinks, 'Hmm, that could have worked better like this.' But as a person who needs to sell tickets to do the next work, one needs to analyze how it does or does not hit its mark. "

" When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful. "

Twyla Tharp

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