I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.

The routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightening bold of inspiration, maybe more. And this routine is available to everyone.

In creative endeavors luck is a skill.

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

There are so few people who can really take hold of art and sort of eat and chew it up. Somehow it's got to be held special, sacred in a corner, and if you don't do the same thing with it, if you're not equally reverential, serious, and pompous about it, well, then you're not a great artist. Who needs that?

I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.

It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.