Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it.
If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.
Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet.
Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
Art means to dare - and to have been right.