Marc Chagall Quotes

When you deal with Alan Ball, you're dealing with a person who is a genius in terms of how art imitates life.

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

Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

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

Has Werner Herzog ever said anything that wasn't true? What a brilliant fountain of wisdom. Everything he touches I'm just fascinated by.

I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country.

We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain set of intelligible skills.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Nothing you could do would make me mad. You're a complete official failure.

Lady Gaga is the Picasso of the entertainment world. She's very intelligent.

When you're a kid, and someone's an artist, you think of Leonardo da Vinci. You don't think that's a job; you just think of a man with a beard, painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages, as with Beethoven. Thus genius works in different ways to achieve its ends.

Normal people do not create art.

I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.

A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.

Talent seduces us into interpretation. My sister could draw wonderfully, but she would never have hit upon the idea of becoming a painter. I never had that extreme talent.

In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.

A truly great artist has many talents.

He best can paint them who shall feel them most.

My skills are not of the highest caliber, but I know a thing or two, and I occasionally produce a painting that contains passages of truth and beauty.

This is to show the world that I can paint like Titian. [A big drawing of a rectangle] Only technical details are missing.