Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotations

I cannot draw to save my life, and I'm not a big art scholar, but I worked with many designers throughout my career - in theater, in dance, costume designers, set designers, and I have a lot of artist friends and I do photography, and I think it's kind of in my life.

Film, theater and television always kind of scared me. I don't ever seriously think of myself as an actor at all, and I don't plan any film career or television career.

Everything I do, it's a bit painterly. I like being surrounded by objects, mostly on paper. I like the images. I like the painting. I like good photography. It's something that makes me an emotional connection, and I feel comfortable around it.

In any art form, in Hollywood or in music, there is a handful of people who really, you know, move the envelope.

I miss horribly those couple of hours before the performance when you get into the theater and you see people.

I'm a product of Russian culture, but I never felt it was my country.

Choreographers use me as the old guy who still dances. Not that I put on white tights.

I spend at least a couple hours a day in the studio, every day, whether I'm dancing or not.

I was never like, "collect, collect," like people who go to auctions. I never spent a serious amount of time because I don't have any time!

I gave away a lot of works for benefits and then people would also give me back.