Art Quote by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“I always thought talent was everything, but maybe it was always money. Or even class. Or if not class exactly, connections.”

— Meg Wolitzer

“If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it…

— Neil Gaiman

“I resented the idea of being talented. I couldn’t respect it — in my experience, no one else did. Being called talented at school…

— Alexander Chee

“There was something about succeeding at what you tried, especially when people needed your talent. Okay, so that talent happened to be illegal breaking…

— Kalayna Price

“It goes without saying that the artists sympathised not with the actual working classes but with their own idea of the working classes,”

— Theodore Dalrymple

“Never forget that, at the most, the teacher can give you fifteen percent of the art. The rest you have to get for yourself…

— Master Tan Soh Tin

“There was never talent, only hard work.”

— Yixing Zhang

“You’ve got one life; do all you can to fulfill your passion. Everybody is gifted with a special talent.”

— Vinita Kinra

“Art is a spirit and soul thing. Anything else is mere desperation.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“There’s something about doing a job well that is akin to art.”

— Kiran Nagarkar

“But I did not want to be good. I wanted to be a writer.”

— Isabel Huggan

“You have to feel so much and too much- for you to be able to make good art. Sometimes, it's the only way.”

— Rej Jaen