Robert Gottlieb Quotes

Sylvie Guillem is the best dancer in the world.

Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.

It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.

The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method.

Evan Rachel Wood is the best actress I've ever worked with, hands down.

I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well, there's an element of that that's either God-given, a talent that you're not necessarily responsible for.

Every company has its style, and that's what makes the Bolshoi so impressive: their attack on jumps or their attack on choreography.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.

I began to fear that the Graham work was not in lots of ways sufficient for me. I suppose it came about from looking at other dancing and being involved with the ballet - something about the air and the way she thought about dancing.

People would say to me, 'Who do you want to be as an artist?' And I would just look at them because I didn't know.

Ditya Bhande is a nice dancer.

I don't sing. I don't dance.

Ballet can be grueling, for sure, but it gives you a certain discipline.

I like to be around dancers who are totally committed to the art form, totally committed to the men and women around them.

The artist in me welcomes another opportunity to be creative.

When I was young, I couldn't think about ballet because I had to focus on my own field. But once you secure your own performance area, you can indulge yourself in different territories. Fashion is one. And ballet is absolutely a fantasy, because it deals with the bodies in a different way.

I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.

I think you're born with style, but you have to develop it. You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.

Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from strength.

That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense; there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.

And if you can find out something about the laws of your own growth and vision as well as those of photography you may be able to relate the two, create an object that has a life of its own, which transcends craftsmanship. That is a long road, and because it must be your own road nobody can teach it to you or find it for you. There are no shortcuts, no rules.

To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.