Albert Finney Quotes

I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

The thing that's tricky is sometimes the best voices - just because someone hits the big notes and sounds amazing - it doesn't necessarily mean they make the greatest artists.

I think if you're good at art, you'll be good at most types of art.

I get hired because I improvise well.

I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me.

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars.

To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.

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.

I've always felt like an artistic person. I can't draw or paint or sculpt. I never really had technical skills, but I've always felt like I appreciate really beautiful things, and part of taking a good photograph is being able to recognize beauty.

Cheryl's artistically inclined. She draws and sketches, but I don't know about acting.

Clare Henderson creates the most beautiful delicate prints and paintings.

The best of any artist is in their art.

It's not about knowing all the gimmicks and photo tricks. If you haven't got the eye, no program will give it to you.

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience.

One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense of art - and this sense is doubtless the horror of the bourgeois.

All men are creative but few are artists.

Normal people do not create art.

He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than compulsion.

The creative part, with the writing of it and the vision, and finding the voice of a show and the characters, is much harder to teach somebody. It's like music. You can either play it or you can't. If you can't play music and you really struggle and work hard, you can learn, but you have to have some inner gift to take it to the next level.

In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations of his talent.

If Picasso walked into Disney looking for a job, they would throw him out on the street. Couldn't draw good enough.

Everyone who has any talent at all in sketching, painting, sculpturing or carving, should have the opportunity to use that talent. The expression is important for the person, and can tremendously enrich the lives of other people. What can you do?