John Singer Sargent Quotes

Poets are born, not paid.

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

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

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

I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.

I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very good poet!

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

I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.

And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.

I admire people who are creative.

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

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

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 a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.

Young people can create beautiful things.

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

I believe and find in my study of art that the real artist is nine-tenths of the time a craftsman, and it is only in that small one-tenth of the time that he rises to the elevated position of a prophet and a master.

There were people who went for serious mind enhancement, like Jimi Hendrix or John Lennon, although I didn't really need to do that. I was blessed with an incredibly fertile imagination.

I'm an artist in my heart.

Everyone is super creative in the family.

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

I always love working with other creative talent.

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.

I found the poems in the fields And only wrote them down