“One could certainly call Diaghilev a creative genius, although it is not easy to analyse the nature of his creative gift. He practised neither
painting not sculpture, nor was he a professional writer; for his few critical essays, remarkable as they were as proofs of his taste and judgement, did not amount to much – and anyway Serge hated the business of writing. He even lost faith before long in any vocation he
may have felt for music, which was his real speciality. In no branch of art did he become an executant or a creator: and yet one cannot deny
that his whole activity was creative.”