Vera Farmiga Quotes

Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius.

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

You want a little talent on that?

It's funny how you can struggle with one piece and write a better one in a minute. When things come easy, it means it's good.

Some people say talent is energy and that's a very interesting way of thinking about it. In other words, people with talent have a lot of energy.

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

The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.

I used to rap as a kid and people were impressed by it, so it gave me the drive to keep going. Everybody has at least one talent. I guess this is my talent.

You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius.

If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.

I stay away from the writing part because I think that if it sticks, it sticks. You just know it. The stuff that doesn't stick, goes away. The stuff that propels you forward, you can see it in your partner's eyes.

I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

My job, professionally, is tapping into stuff. We've all got it. But, I just am fortunate enough that, beyond the age of 11, it's what I do professionally.

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.

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

You're gifted to do something.

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.

Art depends on luck and talent.

I always tell girls who say they want to start a band but don't have any talent, 'Well, neither do I.' I mean, I can carry a tune, but anyone who picks up a bass can figure it out. You don't have to have magic unicorn powers.

I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?'

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.