It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.
Take your work seriously, but never yourself.
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
the first night is the worst possible time to make a hard and fast criticism: the baby never looks its best on the day it is born.
Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
I explained it when I danced it.
If you're afraid of losing, then you daren't win.
It's better to live one day as a lion than a dozen years as a sheep.
Shopping as lifestyle is really a sub-cultural problem. When the strictures that set you apart or oppressed you, disappear, is there a way, legitimately, to maintain your sense of specialness and difference? And how do you express that? Does it just become a kind of kitsch? You can say this of gay people, but it's true for Jewish people, Italian Americans, everyone who deals with it. It's a question of assimilation. How can you be assimilated and special at the same time?
You can't look at what's looking. You can't think about that which is prior to thought.