Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them. What we're talking about here is metaphor. Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art, if it is not art itself. Metaphor is our vocabulary for connecting what we are experiencing now with what we have experienced before. It's not only how we express what we remember , it's how we interpret it - for ourselves and others.
Twyla TharpI was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
Twyla TharpBut obligation, I eventually saw, is not the same as commitment, and it's certainly not an acceptable reason to stick with something that isn't working
Twyla TharpI always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they're doing, and you leave them alone to do it.
Twyla Tharp