The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'
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.
Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible.
I've always been excited by the strangeness of ballet, but I can't bear it when people just come forward and do a turn in the air for no reason.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things I love.
I had only to open my bedroom window, and blue air, love, and flowers entered with her”.
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.
Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.
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.
Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.
Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three.
I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.
A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.
