Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand as if it were necessary to understand when it is simply necessary to love.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

Friendship is unnecessary like philosophy like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Rationalism is the enemy of art though necessary as a basis for architecture.

Engineering medicine business architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short with design.

If you love dance and you have the gift of teaching teaching is super amazing and important because my teachers planted that seed in me. As a teacher you understand the difference or the definition of a Baryshnikov or a Gregory Hines so teaching is really important and very necessary.

It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.

I need some isolation it's necessary to me that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire are procured by labour and they may be multiplied not in one country alone but in many almost without any assignable limit if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.

Be able to live alone even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.

And I find - I'm 63 and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer you better like being alone.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen only wait. Do not even wait be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking it can do no other in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul one must try to include as necessary to one's own happiness the happiness of others.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but if so it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door and this dragon is religion.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.