1,160 Quotes About Talent

A very fine artist can take something quite ordinary and, through sheer artistry and willpower, turn it into a work of art.

Our talent is not a gift, rather a curse… We are to be scorned by our own society, feared that we might use our powers against them. What can be worse to a person than to be shunned away by their own kind? For a skill so grand, we pay a huge price – we remain alone in this vast world.

...I thought, with a certain amount of sorrow, how much enormous talent there must be in the world for nature simply to toss it away so arbitrarily! But nature could not care less what we think about it, and as far as talent is concerned, there is such an excess that our artists will soon become their own audiences, and audiences made up of ordinary people will no longer exist.

Great ingredients do not guarantee a great dish.

Will finds the way but skill gets the credit.

There are man and women out there. Who are proud that they can't cook. It is sad, because you can't be proud for lacking a skill that you need to survive.

Honour your skills, respect your talent

When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music.

Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.