"There are so few people who can really take hold of art and sort of eat and chew it up. Somehow it's got to be held special, sacred in a corner, and if you don't do the same thing with it, if you're not equally reverential, serious, and pompous about it, well, then you're not a great artist. Who needs that?"

-- Twyla Tharp

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“I have to try different things to see what works best. Other people get impatient with that.”
“Everything I do is a symbol. Everything, has a meaning.”

Source : New York Magazine Vol. 19, October 06, 1986.
“True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.”
“I am right sorry for your heavinesse.”
“Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.”
“I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption ... For myself, as no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneous liberation from a certain political and economic system, and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.”
“Action and adventure on land and sea-you can't ask for more. But Robert Kurson raises the ante in Pirate Hunters with an array of mystery and a fleet of colorful characters spanning four centuries. This is a great summer read!”
“In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.”

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