There was always a feeling for me that it would work. That's what keeps me going. You go in with a positive attitude and stay there, and that's a big part of what does make it work.
No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.
If you're successful at a young age, no matter the profession, there has to come a time when you reevaluate everything, what it means to you. 'Is this what I want to do for the rest of my life?'
In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like.
What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
'The Polar Express' began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, 'What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?'
I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss.
By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime.
If we read the Bible asking first, 'What would Jesus do?' instead of asking 'What has Jesus done,' we'll miss the good news that alone can set us free.
I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture, you know, a beautiful cathedral, a beautiful building.
What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.
I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.
Fashion week is very inspiring, and you can't look at things one dimensionally. And I think that everyone who works in this industry has a very three-dimensional view of what fashion is and what art is.
What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory.
It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.
But what now? What am I supposed to do with all these feelings?
What if I had told the boy I loved to leave and it ended up being for nothing?
Masks camouflage the faces of both good and evil. Keeps hidden what is a truth and what is a lie.
