"Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend."

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First and foremost an artist should pay homage to grandness, honour and bow to it, and not try to extinguish the fierce flames of such, in an attempt to have his own feeble light shine brighter. When one isn't able to acknowledge greatness, I would really want to know how he endeavours to make me experience it.

— Felix Mendelssohn