Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.
It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.
He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.