The only way to win a race is to run alone.

Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.

An artist should always bite the hand that feeds him - but not too hard.

When too perfect, lieber Gott böse.

Without electricity, there can be no art.

Nature is beautiful, not because it changes beautifully, but simply because it changes.

The culture that's going to survive in the future is the culture that you can carry around in your head.

There is no rewind button for life.

The cathode-ray tube will replace canvas.

There is no rewind button on the BETAMAX of life.

The future is now.

I am the master of my fate I am the captain of my soul.

And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.

When someone tells you the truth about something, they become loveable.

It's not the rooms, it's the life you live in them

I tell you, the arts - and especially ballet - the discipline is extraordinary. I was extremely impressed.

Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.

A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer.

The purpose of architecture is to create an atmosphere in which man can live, work, and enjoy.

It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole.

The harder [role] the better. Definitely. When somebody turns around and says, "She can't do that," then that's the one I want to do.