If you can't beat them. Join them

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

(Lisa Henson about her father) He admired the job of the man who walks along the road picking up trash with a long stick. He thought that guy had a great job, walking along with a stick, enjoying the road, and doing only good in the world, with hundreds of small actions.

I've always tried to present a positive view of the world in my work. It's so much easier to be negative and cynical and predict doom for the world than it is to try and figure out how to make things better. We have an obligation to do the latter.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous.