Goethe said that the worst thing in art is technical facility accompanied by triteness. Many an artist, like God, has never needed to think twice about anything. His works are the mad scene from Giselle, on ice skates: he weeps, pulls out his hair—holding his wrists like Lifar—and tells you what Life is, all at a gliding forty miles an hour.

Poetry, Unlimited, p. 159 - Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)