“It is my belief… that the talents every child has, regardless of his official 'I. Q,' could stay with him through life, to enrich him and everybody else, if these talents were not regarded as commodities with a value in the success-stakes.”

“Not every child has an equal talent or an equal ability or equal motivation, but they should have the equal right to develop their talent and their ability and their motivation, to make something of themselves.”

“Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.”

“Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.”

“He has no talent at all, that boy! You, who are his friend, tell him please to give up painting.”

“Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.”

“The boy was unquestionably a great natural talent, if not an outright genius, in the art of complaint—tirelessly inventive, and completely shameless in the matter of interpreting his dissatisfactions as someone else’s—anyone else’s—criminal failures to content him.”

“Everybody has talent at twenty-five. The difficult thing is to have it at fifty.”

“My talent lies in the expression of my life and creative power through light, colour and form. As a painter I can convey the essence of life.”

“Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.”