Caricature is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

There must be a certain amount of imitation, copying, in outward technique, but when there is inward, psychological imitation surely we cease to be creative.

I have nothing to declare but my genius.

Only my own genius.