Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it.
In music the present is extended.
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.
Art means to dare - and to have been right.
Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.