If you think you know where you're going to be 10 years from now, that's where you're at now. You're just putting it off.
Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to have a heavy physicality in that way.
I would say that one of the things that we are proud of is that we are attracting very interesting guest stars. One is Tyne Daly, who has done a wonderful job.
The survival of my own ideas may not be as important as a condition I might create for others’ ideas to be realized.
I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows
When I was young, I was clever enough to know that if I got married or had children, I would be eaten.
Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.
Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.
My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on.
When 'Hung' got canceled, I was available for pilot season, and 'Arrow' was the first thing I auditioned for. It wasn't the first script that came to me, but it was my first audition.
Hedi Slimane told me I was boyish in his eyes. For him femininity and masculinity are the same thing, the difference is not so interesting, he said.
I see myself as quite feminine. But many people seem to think differently about that; sometimes people mistake me for a man. In Paris I often hear 'bonjour monsieur'.
It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.
And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space.
According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped.
I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.
I do believe that I will see the apocalypse in my lifetime. And when it comes, I'm not repenting for anything I've done.
