Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.

There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.

Behind a remarkable scholar one finds, not infrequently, a mediocre man, and behind a mediocre artist quite often-a very remarkable man.

What a man is begins to betray itself when his talent decreases-when he stops showing what he can do.

Most of your clean-cut types don't have any talent. When they get done washing their face in the morning that's about the end of their contribution.

Talent is a question of quantity Talent does not write one page: it writes three hundred.

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

I concluded that my mind was so ordinary which is to say empty that I could never be anything but a reasonably good camera. So I would content myself with a more common and general sort of achievement than serious art, which was money.

Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.

I've got a God-given talent. I get it from my dad.