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The Collaborative Habit by Twyla Tharp
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
I just finished Twyla Tharp’s The Collaborative Habit, the follow-up to her successful 2005 book, The Creative Habit.
Here are some of my favorite passages:
“A great partnership is a lab where change happens every day.”
“In any collaboration, no one likes to let colleagues down. Crisis focuses energy. When it really matters, people rise to the occasion.”
“All [...]
On Collecting Art
Sunday, April 5th, 2009
The desire to collect art begins with attraction. There’s an urge to be near a thing of beauty, and over time, when you’re with something like that, with something beautiful, a relationship begins to form, and that relationship begins to have a meaning, and it’s meant to. A work of art is meant to have [...]