Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable..

The critic is beneath the maker, but is his needed friend. The critic is not a base caviler, but the younger brother of genius. Next to invention is ….

National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius..

Anybody who is stupid enough often stumbles on an effect that could never be thought up by the most brilliant. I suspect that there is a thing which ….

You can have it all, but not all at once..

There you are, sir. There's nothing more than to love and be loved..

You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius..

It takes at least one to make a marriage..

Has anybody seen my tambourine?.

And she walked away, and she walked away, and that was that, and that was that..

Take what you do seriously, but yourself lightly.

Everything I do, I do for love..

The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius..

What doesn't kill us makes us funnier..

The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals..

Learning patience takes a lot of patience!.

If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be successful, when you commence to earn mon….

Heaven and earth, advantages and obstacles, conspire to educate genius..

All of the music works on its own, but it doesn't really make as much sense without the picture..

True genius does not fulfill expectations; true genius shatters it..

I am always tying up and then deciding to depart..