Genius is another word for magic.

I think perhaps I've learned to be myself. I have a theory that all artists who would be important - painters and writers - must learn to be themselves. It takes a very long time.

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is some part of oneself remains on another continent.

Jumping for joy' is a very basic human reaction, and a child skipping down the street is simply an untrained dancer.

Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.

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.