Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.

- Twyla Tharp

Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you eager but flounde…

- Twyla Tharp

Creativity requires quite a lot of faith - not just in yourself but also in the knowledge that you have the right to proceed, even when you may not k…

- Twyla Tharp

Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.

- Twyla Tharp

Dancers are allowed, indeed encouraged, to remain children forever.

- Twyla Tharp

If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less i…

- Twyla Tharp

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

- Twyla Tharp

dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible tha…

- Twyla Tharp

No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking a…

- Twyla Tharp