Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though rich."

Art means to dare - and to have been right

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

Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.