We endow our poor lovers with godly traits, and then destroy them for being mortal.

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

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.

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.

Art’s the biggest vanity: the assumption that one’s view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.

Anyone can be gay – it’s no accomplishment – but only I can be me.

Sooner or later you’ve heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.

Artists, by definition innocent, don’t steal. But they do borrow without giving back.

I don’t go to concerts much. I’ve heard everything. When I do go to movies, I walk out half the time. As for literature, I’ve read everything.

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of.