“An idea is something you have; an ideology is something that has you”

“It may take years to put your idea into action. But if it has real worth, time will prove it, and you will have something that will endure.”

““So, you’re saying you have no idea what this stuff is.” At last, something that sounded plausible.”

“Be free. Don't just make freedom something you have, make it something you do … something you ARE!”

“Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.”

“Until you actually start making something, your brilliant idea is just that, an idea.”

“Love isn’t something you have, it’s something you do.”

“Until Abstract Expressionism you had to have something to paint about, some kind of subject matter. Even though Kandinsky and w:Arthur Dove were improvising earlier, it didn't take. They had to have symbols, suggested natural images or geometry, which was something real structurally. That gave them something to paint about. What was new was the idea that something you looked at could be like something you heard.”

“When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it's the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.”

“You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”