Quotes About Potential

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.

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.

I'm fully aware had I stayed with my art, I would be well known, respected and most likely rich.

No matter how substandard you feel your skill or talent may be, If you never produce your art, the world will always remain deprived of it.

Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot.

Ideas and art are the possibility of an answer tomorrow.

As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.

In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen.

I was told I was talented when I applied to Falmouth School of Art and that I should consider skipping the course and proceeding directly to degree level.

Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is good at Math.

It's wonderful that nothing you write is ever going to be as beautiful as what's in your head, because that gap is where the art can enter and begin to stretch its limbs.

When the uncapped potential of a student meets the liberating art of a teacher, a miracle unfolds.

The art of dying graciously is nowhere advertised, in spite of the fact that its market potential is great.

When I was three or four, I was really good at drawing and painting, and everyone used to say, "You're going to go to art college." I didn't really know what that meant.

I am an expert in the 'art of the possible.'

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

The material's out there, a calm lake waiting for us to dive in.

We are capable of learning any art.

Listen to the arts of kids, their hands when tied have wings.

Notice I did not say what people can do--what we can do is merely a consequence of what we can be.

It just feels like meeting him again was like seeing a blank paper ready to be sketched, a different idea to be drawn.

A true work of art is shaped by the hands of another, and if in shaping us that 'other' is anything other than God, the piece will never touch the remotest periphery of its potential.

- It doesn't do anything obvious. But it might be able to do something in here. - Then she touched her hand to her heart. - Beautiful things sometimes do.

We are all born artists. The nature generally doesn't discriminate among newborns with respect to art. Yet most of us try very hard as we grow, without knowing, to stop being artists.