Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.

If you read reviews of concerts, the word 'creative' comes up all the time. However, performers playing music usually aren't creative. Critics might say they are, but they're just playing another persons work. They didn't create it.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

Divine fires do not blaze each day but an artist functions in their afterglow, hoping for their recurrence.