I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens.
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.
I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.
It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people.
I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.
The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.
It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.
I will work for energy policies that recognize oil won't last forever.
I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.
Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest thing possible. Because there's always somebody behind you who really wants to do what you're doing. And they're going to work harder than you if you're not working hard.
God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.
I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do?
There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work.
I go to work the minute I open my eyes.