In professional work - certainly in the arts and graphics - 99% of people have zero courage. They blow with the wind.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

You can be cautious or you can be creative, but there’s no such thing as a Cautious Creative.

To create great work, here's how you must spend your time: 1% Inspiration 9% Perspiration 90% Justification

The more creative you are the more trouble you're in. You have to be courageous!

Advertising is poison gas. It should bring tears to your eyes, unhinge your nervous system and knock you out.

Nothing comes from nothing. You must continuously feed the inner beast that sparks and inspires.

Creativity can solve almost any problem.

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Most people work at keeping their job, rather than doing a good job. If you're the former, you're leading a meaningless life. If you're the latter, keep up the good work.

In any creative industry, the fact that others are moving in a certain direction is always proof positive, at least to me, that a new direction is the only direction.

My happiness with the future and the present depends on my ability to let the past go and make peace with it.

What is it that makes us who we are and what we are? Is it only our blood, the color of our hair, our skin, and our eyes? Or is it believing in what we believe and living the way we live?

No one, none of us have rights. There is no destiny. We have responsibilities to ourselves and each other. We have responsibilities and the choice whether or not we live up to those responsibilities.

Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.

How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored.

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

The test before us as a people is not whether our commitments match our will and our courage; but whether we have the will and courage to match our commitments.

Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

I think you can judge the level of success for any group of people by the reaction against it.