One clear difference between art and commercial work is that commercial work is exploitive: the work may be high quality but the intention is to sell product or tickets. Art exists with or without ticket sales.
Twyla TharpI have learned over the years that you should never save for two meetings what you can accomplish in one.
Twyla TharpThe disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.
Twyla TharpI think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.
Twyla Tharp