Twyla Tharp Quotes

I'm not "filled with my art". I ain't got no art. I've got only a kind of craftsman's skill, and make stories as I make biscuits or embroider underwear or wrap up packages.

Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.

I actually believe that a lot of what people call originality has to do with persistence in the craft.

To be honest, I don't necessarily think you have to be an actor to act. You don't have to be a musician to make great music. If it comes along and you put your all into it, the outcome is what's important.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Craft is part of the creative process.

There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

We have something that is unique. We have our craft. We have our art. We have our desire.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.

It does not matter whether you paint, sculpt, or make shoes, whether you are a gardener, a farmer, a fisherman, a carpenter-it does not matter. What matters is, are you putting your very soul into what you are creating? Then your creative products have something of the quality of divine.

The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.

I've come to recognize songwriting as something that I do, and I want to be good at that. At that craft, if you like. I want to practice it.

It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank.

Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.

Basically my personality, and my talent, and my lyrics are so outstanding that what listeners can tell is that I put so much hard work into what I'm doing because it comes through my music. So I feel that my music for one will get my point across. I write from my heart and my spirit... You know what I'm sayin'? Some people don't know their place, they're just like "Oh I rap because I'm tryin' to get this or that, and I'm doin' this because I want to get money.

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

It's a real testament to the amount of skill and talent involved, across the board, whether it's the production design, the construction, the costume design, the other actors, the way it's shot, the directors we had on it, or obviously John's writing. When things do go well, it sometimes seems easy, in a weird way, but it's actually down to a lot of cogs working in a big machine. But, I'm certainly happy to be going back. I'm excited to carry on.

I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

Talent works, genius creates.

Not every actor gives their life to do this job. Some just do it as a job. Well, it's my life.