Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.
— Ned Rorem
Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.
The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of.
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
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.