“One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.”

1970's, Every Man an Artist: Talks at Documenta 5', 1972

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

J’ai mis tout mon génie dans ma vie; je n’ai mis que mon talent dans mes œuvres. <br class="br">Conversation with André Gide in Algiers, quoted in letter by Gide to his mother (30 January 1895); popularized by Gide and often subsequently quoted in Gide’s later work and in &quot;Gide, André (1869-1951)&quot; at Standing Ovations http://www.mr-oscar-wilde.de/about/g/gide.htm; the conversation was again recalled in Gide’s journal of (3 July 1913), quoted in “André Gide’s ‘Hommage à Oscar Wilde’ or ‘The Tale of Judas’”, Victoria Reid (University of Glasgow, UK), Chapter 5 in [Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe], edited by Stefano Evangelista (8 July 2010) part of a Continuum series The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe, ISBN 978-1-84706005-1, pp. 98–99 http://books.google.com/books?id=-oBmdCTSJ5IC&amp;pg=PA98#v=onepage&amp;q=%22I%20put%20all%20my%20genius%22, also footnote 6 (p. 99), quoting 1996 edition of Gide’s journal, pp. 746–47]

Source: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 18

Source: Ronnie (2008, posthumous), p. 196; Quoting from Sunday Times, June 2000

Honouree Announcement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjTtG_muVhM (November 1, 2020)

L&#x27;auteur de ce Prophète a non seulement le bonheur d&#x27;avoir du talent, mais aussi le talent d&#x27;avoir du bonheur. <br class="br">Les soirées de l&#x27;orchestre (1852), ch. 5 http://www.hberlioz.com/Writings/SO05.htm; Jacques Barzun (trans.) Evenings with the Orchestra (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999) p. 62.