Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then come back to it and work a plot around it.
There's a lot of variety of musicians in Korea. I cannot say they are the best in the world, but I can say that Korean artists are really dynamic artists, so I am going to show that from now on.
Your goal is to achieve the best results by following their wishes. If they want you to build a house upside down standing on its chimney, it's up to you to do it.
I bet the very first piñata was surprised. “Oh, hey a party! Cool! What’s the occa— HEY, WHAT THE HELL, KID?
The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.
I really feel sorry for new generation. It's hard to find backbone. I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.
Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.
I found I loved musicals as much or more than the pure dance world. I also think I became tired of dancing for other dancers.
I had always choreographed a little, beginning in high school. And I leaned toward choreography. I always had an overview of what was going on.
What I really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it and it's working, I'm thrilled.
Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.
Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour.
As a designer, you have to think in time and see things in sequence. You have to see information as a narrative form - Paul Mijksenaar quoted by Kim Baer
I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part of that asceticism.
I'm not really a foodie; I could eat the same thing every night, and I go to restaurants that I can walk to.
My insights come in periods of working. There are wonderful moments of surprise, but I'm superstitious enough not to want to talk about them.
The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.
