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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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"Never despise the talents you have. It is by them that you will do something that has not yet come into existence until you were born."
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"Talent silences your competition, genius deafens them."
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"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."
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"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."
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"He has tongue of a writer."
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"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."
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"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."
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"You will only succeed in the field where your gift is."
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"What you are good at, you never do it free!"
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"Use the capacity and talent given to you by God to go and subdue the world given to you by Him."
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"I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!"
Fool
"I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to."
Time
"Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible."
Beginning
"My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris."
God
"The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it."
Art
"It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren't far away."
Pretty
"Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn."
Art
"The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it."
Life
"No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!"
Talent
"Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite."
Life
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