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

The Great don't innovate, they fertilize seeds planted by lackeys, they leave to others the inhaling of the flowers whose roots they've manured. A deceptive memory may be the key to their originality.

Anyone can be gay - it's no accomplishment - but only I can be me.

An artist doesn't necessarily have deeper feelings than other people, but he can express these feelings. He is like everyone else-only more so! He speaks with a Formal Sigh.

composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.

Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet.

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