The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.

Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.