We are part of each other and part of something bigger than our own egos. An artist should... bring into the world some vision. Dancers should ask, "What is their work in the service of?"

When I am in pain, I must know that beauty always has been and always will be. This is as close to eternity as I need to be.

Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget.

We are part of each other and part of something bigger than our own egos. An artist should... bring into the world some vision. Dancers should ask, "What is their work in the service of?"

Art - when it is really doing what it should do - teaches abstract thinking; it teaches teamwork; it teaches people to actually think about things that they cannot see.

We all agree that marriage is a fundamental right. And in our country, and in our society, there are no second-class citizens.

This is what I call participation in the world of ideas. That is what art-making is.