Truman Capote Quotes

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered--either by themselves or by others.

It's the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen.

There are many good ideas out there that never get an audience.

I guess I just look at talent as a very subjective thing. I mean, if you never tried playing an oboe, how do you know you're not the most talented oboe player ever? The point is that if you don't love it, then it doesn't matter.

It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that the greatest artists live and die, the world and themselves alike ignorant what they possess.

Many ... have tremendous God-given gifts, but they don't focus on the development of those gifts. Who are these individuals? You've never heard of them- and you never will .

There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school.

There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

My work unblocks people, and then I look at the work that they do, and I think, 'My God, how could they not have known they were talented? How could they not have known?'

There are thousands of very, very talented artists who will never be known, even after they are dead.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

I do believe some people can naturally act and don't know it.

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

Before 'Lord of the Rings,' some people would have just classed Peter Jackson as a horror director. But there is a mind there.

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Among those people not graduating, there might be a Steve Jobs or Barack Obama. We'll never know.

We did a film called 'Kes,' which is about a lad with a talent that nobody can recognise, or that nobody chose to recognise.

I think there's a lot of hidden talents at the big clubs that aren't getting the chance to showcase their ability.

I've always found that there are loads of people out there with real talent will never get discovered. Shows like 'The X Factor' can help that and give people the confidence to do what they want.

No player at the beginning of his career knows how good he can be.

There are plenty of people I've seen and thought that person is funny, or that person is really talented, and they've got something, but maybe the buying public doesn't see the same thing I see, or the stars don't align in the right way for them.

There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear. In my own field the biochemist Fritz Lipmann or the much maligned Linus Pauling were very talented people. But generally, geniuses everywhere seem to have died out by 1914. Today, most are mediocrities blown up by the winds of the time.