Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
The artist is today and has been for many years, despite his absence of merit, simply a spoiled child. So many honors, so much money bestowed on men without souls and without education.
A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.
Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities.
