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Quotes About Untalented

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
~ Al Capp
Religion itself is without genius. There is no religious genius and no one would be permitted to distinguish between the talented and the untalented in religion.
~ Max Stirner
The author is unworthy of His own characters. The devil is first a literary critic, who delivers this untalented scribbler the public flaying He deserves.
~ Joe Hill
If you make a decision about who is good and who is not good at an early age; if you separate the "talented" from the "untalented"; and if you provide the "talented" with a superior experience, then you're going to end up giving a huge advantage to that small group of people born closest to the cutoff date.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Pedro de Vargas, who had a respectful fondness for music and poetry but it the least skill in them, was drawn to Ortiz by the law of opposites and sought him out with the reverence of the untalented for the artist.
~ Samuel Shellabarger
HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD IS THE HEART OF the heartless Hollywood legend. Like special moths attracted to the special glitter of the nihilistic movie capital, the untalented or undiscovered are spewed into the streets by the make-it legend.
~ John Rechy
The beer got him, and, for a moment, a rush of idiot compassion urged him to hug a pinch-faced man in brown overalls who sat on a stool surrounded by primitive paintings of Jesus engaged in various farm chores (milking a cow, driving a tractor, killing a hog), but the desire to comfort the untalented, the misguided, left Wally before he could act.
~ Ellen Datlow
His features were blunt and brutish, as if drawn at speed by an untalented child.
~ Jonathan Stroud
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
~ Al Capp
The truth is I don't know whether Fair Day is a brilliant example of naive art, or the pathetic scrawling of a superbly untalented, and delusional, old woman. That's the tension.
~ Louise Penny