Art Quote by John Olsen

Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

No talent, but yet a character. [Ger., Kein talent, doch ein Charakter.]

— Heinrich Heine

Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All success is quite temporary if you don't work hard enough to maintain where you are. Talent can get you somewhere but character keeps…

— Mehcad Brooks

“Our connection to art has less to do with talent and more to do with the emotion it stirs inside us. And perhaps our…

— Nicole Deese

Art or talent, for an artist, is merely a means of applying his personal faculties to the ideas and the things of the period…

— Gustave Courbet

There is nothing new in art except talent.

— Anton Chekhov

“I succeeded as a cartoonist with negligible art talent, some basic writing skills, an ordinary sense of humor and a bit of experience in…

— Chris Guillebeau

There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Everybody has some talents - we all have an art side and some talent - but you have some areas where you are better…

— Olivier Martinez

I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age seven, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books…

— Len Wein

By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called…

— Fredrik Bajer