John Ruskin Quotes

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

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

Becoming an artist is not empirical; it's not about hard work. You have to put the work in, but that doesn't mean you're going to make it.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.

Art is something you can't teach, but you can inspire it.

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

I admire people who are creative.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

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.

It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.

I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going.

Poets are born, not paid.

I'm a creator at heart.

I want people to think I'm a creative genius.

I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

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

I have such deep appreciation for artists who have the ability to create something from within, something completely unique and original to each piece of work.

I am a creative person.