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The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb
Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
Sir Laurence Olivier
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
Andre Gide
Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
Ezra Pound
Premature development of the powers of both mind and body leads to an early grave.
John Quinton
Let a human being throw the energies of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty.
Walter Lippmann
The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.
Willa Cather
Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
Jules Renard
If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.
Dustin Hoffman
Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? -- a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.
Jean Anouilh
Who has a trade may go anywhere.
Proverb
Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
Leonard Bernstein
God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools let them use their talents
William Shakespeare
Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.
Stephen King
Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to artistic talent. Any parent with a hard hand can crush it, but to nurture it is much more difficult.
Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, you think God put you on earth to blow Shakespeare away. Of if you can paint, maybe you think--I did--that God put you on earth to blow your father away.
The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
Pablo Picasso
A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every artist was first an amateur.
