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"Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty."
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"The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as "Soho" poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent."
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"To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies."
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"America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist."
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"A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent."
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"No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!"
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"Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred."
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"I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing."
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"I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian."
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"There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up."
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"It's hard for Americans to differentiate between talent and notoriety, TV confuses people."
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"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
Art
"In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false."
Creativity
"Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty."
Talent
"No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters."
Art
"It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory."
Imagination
"What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming."
Conversation
"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."
Painting
"Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it."
Art
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