Quotes About Talent

Believe it or not, I can actually draw.

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion.

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.

Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with quality.

All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?

When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with.

Each body has its art.

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you're doing becomes art.

I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.

There's nothing as human as hunger. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art.

It is ten per cent how you draw, and ninety per cent what you draw.

Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.

Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps.

Art is craft, not inspiration.

I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else.

I did go to a performing arts school, so that facilitated my creativity, though I ended up going in a more musical direction.

There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.

I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.