If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.

Good looking people turn me off. Myself included.

When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do.

You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film.

If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.

There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

As always, I appreciate all the love and support people have sent and continue to send my way.

Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.

I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.

I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.

I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.

I like to believe that I've got a lot of guardian warriors sittin' on my shoulder including my dad.

I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do.

I've had so many injuries.

If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself.

My work... is my legacy.

One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.

Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.

The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.

There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff - something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.

To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.

Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.

What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.

What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.

When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.

When you are a pit bull, and you love what you do and you are going to continue to grow, that talent will find its way out.

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.

You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

I'm inspired by nature. Other artist's work is important for developing my perception.

There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.

What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist.

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade.

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.

I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.