Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.
If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.
Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.
The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.
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.