Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.

It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.

Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change places with the speed of mach 3.

I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.

Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.