The thought of you being removed from the rotation is not funny to me.
Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.
If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.
Divine fires do not blaze each day but an artist functions in their afterglow, hoping for their recurrence.
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.
The division of the Roman world between the sons of Theodosius marks the final establishment of the empire of the East, which, from the reign of Arcadius to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, subsisted one thousand and fifty-eight years in a state of premature and perpetual decay.
I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever - wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
The dead elm leaves hung like folded bats.