Quotes About Talent

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.

Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.

I draw like other people bite their nails.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius.

Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art.

All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.

Actors have no color. That's the art form.

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

You are only a young talent, but we don't know how old your soul is.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

I've always been doing some sort of art. I started off, when I was very young, painting.

Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul.

Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.

I don't have technique because I never learnt any.

I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.

Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.

I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.

I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.

Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.

The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter.