Dinah Maria Mulock Quotes

Songwriting is my gift from God.

Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry.

Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.

A good poet's made as well as born.

Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always my skill.

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

I have sometimes thought that his bursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift. He squandered too much in the heat of personal communication.

I feel that if I had not had an art program in my school, I would have failed in a big way. My teachers knew I was intelligent, but they didn't quite know how I was ever going to apply that intelligence. The one or two teachers who knew me well knew that it would be through drawing or acting or whatever means of expression I was allowed.

You have a talent that comes from inside you, from your heart, not your fingers. What you have can’t ever go away. It’s what other people only dream about. You’re an artist.

There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor

I must say that the first person to realise that I was talented in art was my mother.

I think that there has been a slow recognition that there's a mind at work here, and there's a skill and some bit of artistry, and that I could probably do other things. Otherwise, I don't know that I would've been given the opportunity to do Paris, Je T'Aime.

I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked. With your own voice,' he said.

I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn't know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.

I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that painting is in the very marrow of my bones.

I loved to draw. I always did. I started when I was about five years old.

One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense of art - and this sense is doubtless the horror of the bourgeois.

All men are creative but few are artists.

Normal people do not create art.

Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.

In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations of his talent.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.

I enjoy painting. I don't know if I'm good at it, but I paint. I paint very quickly.