George Shearing Quotes

I believe in nurturing creativity and offering a haven for creators, enabling them to develop their ideas to the fullest. With more and more talented creators being drawn to Cirque in an environment that fulfills them, these are ideal to continue developing great new shows.

It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.

It just makes you a better artist when you're with people who are great artists themselves. Being around Kanye, soaking up all the knowledge, all the stuff he got.

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not.

Every little opportunity and chance that I get to be on a set, to be a director, to utilize the skill sets that I already have and to learn what I don't know, and to see how I can improve upon that is just a really great opportunity for me.

I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

I think it's always great to not be the smartest person in the room because I don't want to ever feel like I can't improve upon what I'm doing. I just want to surround myself with people that are better actors than me and better singers and dancers and see what happens.

I have an idea about building almost like a studio for some of the best Tropfest filmmakers, so they can come together and support and be given space and resources they need to tell great stories year around, so it's not just about the festivals. You know, the sky's the limit with this thing, and I'm still making it up as I go along.

Organization cannot make a genius out of a dunce.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Talent cannot be learned, it can only be developed.

I'm always concerned about growing as an artist.

Looking back at it now, it's almost overwhelming, the amount of work that went into writing 'Shine', and to come up with the ideas that we're doing now.

Besides being one of the most ambitious projects I have worked on, 'Mercury' has also helped me enhance my skills as a director.

I've always known from a young age that creativity is natural.

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.

An educational foundation is only part of the equation. In order for creativity to flourish and imagination to take hold, we also need to expose our children to the arts from a very young age.

You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.

When I was a child I could do math and art, so I had left- and right-brain capabilities. But I've seen my children, who are more right-brained, struggling. My son was told he wouldn't make it to college, but he dogged it through and ended up being accepted by 10 major art schools after the high school advisor said, "Please don't apply. You're going to be disappointed." That kid's an artist now.

Don't teach talent that isn't there.

Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.

You can't be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I'm very thankful for that. I'm very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened.

I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.