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Quotes About Talent

If you're an artist, you've got to prove it.
~ Laurence Olivier
It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.
~ Paul McCartney
Magic is a powerful art that can support a weak performer.
~ Ricky Jay
You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.
~ Sarah Brightman
Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.
~ Peter Shaffer, Amadeus
I appreciated art, long before I could produce it.
~ Wayne Gerard Trotman
The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.
~ Beth Henley
I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.
~ Brian Selznick
Art class was my thing, but not any other class.
~ Dan Colen
In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.
~ Daniel Clowes
I was forced to make the decision between art and music which are the only two things I liked as opposed to being able to do them both because that's what I was interested in.
~ Ewan McGregor
I was 11 when I was first introduced to live drawing classes and going to art school.
~ Kehinde Wiley
Both of my parents were cartoonists - they met in art school - so I was always drawing and I was the best artist in my class and all that stuff.
~ Mark Alan Stamaty
To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.
~ Mark Twain
Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
~ Adam Gopnik
It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people.
~ Amy Poehler
To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me.
~ Anchee Min
I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.
~ Anna Deavere Smith
If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I'm on your team.
~ Anthony Anderson
To measure up takes skill, but to err is an art.
~ Anthony Marais
I always knew that I'd probably do something in the arts.
~ Aya Cash
I'm fully aware had I stayed with my art, I would be well known, respected and most likely rich.
~ Betty Dodson
... Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different.
~ Billy Eckstine
Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communicators in person.
~ Christie Brinkley