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.

The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.

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.

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

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

There are no fascinating people, only their works are fascinating.

Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it.