"Every work of art needs a spine â€“ an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be apparent to the audience. But you need it at the start of the creative process to guide you and keep you going."

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Source : Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

Twyla Tharp

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“The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed, The holy bread, the food unpriced, Thy everlasting mercy, Christ.”
“The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams.”
“It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body”
“When I was going through my transition of being famous, I tried to ask God, why was I here? What was my purpose? Surely, it wasn't just to win three gold medals. There has to be more to this life than that.”
“I donâ€™t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces â€˜intelligence.”
“A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.”
“I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.”
“If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.”

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