Michael Cimino Quotes

I think, for the most part, our culture embraces that artists are born, not made.

I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting.

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.

If they're not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.

In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.

Britain's got talent, enormous talent; that's very obvious.

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

Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter.

Magic has been something I've been really good at since I was really young. The ability has always come easy to me, I'm not sure why.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

Because of Mozart, it's all over after the age of seven.

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

I was a blond-haired kid with blue eyes, growing up in an Italian ghetto. I had a very high IQ. In elementary school, I skipped ahead twice. I was 10 years old when everyone else was 12.

I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual story.

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

I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.

There are actually very few deeply 'gifted' kids with transcendent cognitive or artistic abilities.

The best comedians and the best rappers can make you laugh and can make you cry... I believe I've been blessed with that gift to make you do just that.

When I was just 13 years old, I even painted cinema posters.

It seems like if they'd given Bob Dylan a pen and paper in the cradle that he would've come up with a great song. I'd love to write songs like that.

I'm not a prodigy - or a 'wonderboy,' as some have put it.

My brother is a genius. When we went to Italy, he was on the local television channel as a prodigy, who could solve very sophisticated mathematical equations. He was only seven or eight years old but he could solve mathematical problems for fourteen year olds.

Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties.

Michelangelo indeed could have carved out your features.