Andrew Wyeth Quotes

I believe in talent. I know you're not supposed to believe in that anymore because you're supposed to believe if you just work hard you can do anything. That's how you succeed, maybe. But talent is something you're born with. You cannot acquire it by working hard, and you cannot lose it by lying around either.

To get to the top, you must put in a lot of hard work, but you also need to be blessed with talent.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.

No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

Hard work is for people short on talent.

Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of transcendent achievement. Few marks are made in the world's history by eight-hour-day men.... Sir Joshua Reynolds had but one maxim for success: Work, work, work. Is not rigid and continuous training necessary for the making of strong athletes? Hard work is not fatal to real success. Vouloir c'est pouvoir.

One thing you notice is, there's a lot of people with raw talent, and then there's people who take that talent and work hard.

You don't get money unless you have a lot of talent, which I don't have, or you work hard, which is what I do. We don't have any golden touch here.

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn't mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.

Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy.

Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

Real talent will get through whatever the obstacles.

I feel lucky. I feel blessed. If you get blessed with some ability, I think you have to work hard at it. Michael Jordan was a great basketball player, but he wasn't the best shooter, even though he had the skill, and he had to work and work at it.

I define talent as the rate at which you get better at something when you try. To be very talented means you get better faster and more easily than other people or other things that you try.

If you have talent, then success will come to you.

When I was younger, I didn't work hard because I could rely on my talent. That's not the right way.

A familiar name on its own, however, does not carry its bearer far unless the talent is there, and the will to work.

Don't think that you can just rely on natural talent because there are going to be times when you get a little tired and that's when your skills come into play to help you make look easy.

Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Talent is long patience.