If genuine talent could abdicate its own nature in this matter, and thus lay aside its original personality, to transform itself into another, it would lose everything by playing this role of its own double.

It is as if a god should turn valet.

We must draw our inspiration from the original sources.

It is the same sap, distributed through the soil, that produces all the trees of the forest, so different in bearing power, in fruit, in foliage.

It is the same nature that fertilizes and nourishes the most diverse geniuses.