Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.

Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.

Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.

No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.

If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion

You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.

Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.

More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into account how you or the world has changed.

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.

Your mind is a mirror and you see yourself in it again and again.

He better call Becky with the good hair.

Some people reflect lightSome deflect itYou by some miracleSeem to collect it

I want to tell you something but good tasteRestrains me

Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens.

Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.

No matter what you do, at the end of the day you can't please everybody. I'm not hear to please.

Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's problems.

You've got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand?

Being prepared for a job is a good idea for the short term, but it is not enough for the long term.