In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

I just love performing so much, and I threw myself into every musical theater production that was going in my home town and at school. And then, I went to the National Youth Music Theatre, which was really a galvanizing experience for me when I was 17.

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

A lot of people who watch DVDs are people who are interested in, if not moviemaking, then creativity in general.