Helena Bonham Carter Quotes

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

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

I was always pretty good at designing things.

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.

Thank God for my imagination. For my abilities to mimic.

Ghibli is about craftsmanship. They draw characters and put life in it.

alent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.

That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense; there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.

Talent works, genius creates.

To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

What I like about it is the creativity. When I watch good soccer players - the way they have to make a play out of nothing.

Doing designs on a loom takes a lot of talent and experience, and, trust me, I won't be able to do that.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

He who does not know how to create should not know.

I was never a skilled artist or anything like that - never a rebel.

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

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.