العالم ملكٌ، والملوك يريدون التملّق مقابل العطاء؛ أما الفن الحقيقي فأنانيّ وعنيد، لا يخضع لقالب التملّق.

“The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.”Ludwig van Beethoven — Beethoven, the man and the artist: as revealed in his own words (1905)