An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
One cannot be a sorcerer all the time. How could one live?
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.