...wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent.

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.

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 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.

generally speaking, we are all happier when we are still striving for achievement than when the prize is in our hands.

I have never wanted to live to be old, so old I'd run out of friends or money.

Dancers are both athletes and artists.