I'd rather be a success as a fish than a failure as a fish trying to be a bird.

Innovators are inevitably controversial.

What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The doing is all that really counts.

People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it. Only try to keep yourself clear and don't allow that destructive force to spoil something that to you is simple, natural, and beautiful.

the theater should be free to the people just as the Public Library is free, just as the museum is free. ... I want the theater to be made accessible to the people.

People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it.

When you use your energy and resources to punish people, you run out of energy and resources to protect people.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul.

And you fall, and you crawl, and you break, what you get, and you turn it into honesty and promise you're never going to find you're faking, no no no.

A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.

Disagreement is something normal.

As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.

Are we as willing to go into debt for the work of God as we are for a vacation to Hawaii?

I firmly believe that Harper's Bazaar is the star. I am there to make it the best it possibly can be, but there should be no confusion. I want to put Harper's Bazaar front and center.

I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I thought it looked great! I didn't understand why anyone else didn't think so.