Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Quotes

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.

I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well, there's an element of that that's either God-given, a talent that you're not necessarily responsible for.

Poets are born, not paid.

Genius, particularly creative genius, is less about raw intelligence and more about elevated vision.

Only once in a thousand years or so do we get to hear a Mozart or see a Picasso or read a Shakespeare. Ali was one of them, and yet at his heart, he was still a kid from Louisville who ran with the gods and walked with the crippled and smiled at the foolishness of it all.

Peter Jackson has the sort of imagination that no one else has.

There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do.

The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.

... Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different.

You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius.

There's no denying that Caruso came with a voice?that Beethoven came with music in his soul, Picasso was drawing like an angel in the crib.You're born with it.

Do you know how some people can do anything?” “What do you mean?” “I mean, you tell them to write a tune, they give you a symphony right there. You tell them to write a book, they write you a novel in a day. You tell them to move a spoon without touching it, they move it. If they want something, they make it happen. Miracles, almost.

I believe my love of beauty and my ability to see what works is a gift I was given by God.

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

I was born with the gift.

Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.

The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic.

You can't make an artist like Lady Gaga. You can help support, you can help develop the vision - I think you can add to the vision - but you just can't make an artist like that. That's like saying Lebron James' high school coach made Lebron James.

Some people have just got a capacity for creativity that's unbelievable!

My gift from God has been my talent, my genetics, and the people around me.

I've always been creating, no one had to teach me how to create, I always made things.