“Artistic talent is far more common than the talent toartistic talent. Any parent with a hard hand can crush it, but to nurture it is much more difficult.”
Source: 11/22/63
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Stephen King733
American author 1947Related quotes
Edward de Bono (1933) Maltese physician
Iraq? They just need to think it through (2007)
Context: Creative thinking — in terms of idea creativity — is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured. You can never tell how a policy has been reached just by looking at the end result. Some people who have achieved a huge amount do not come across as impressive when you speak to them.
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
“Nothing infuriates an academic more than a talented and successful colleague.”
William McKeen (1954) American academic
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 17, Homecoming, p. 329
“I am no more humble than my talents require.”
Oscar Levant (1906–1972) American comedian, composer, pianist and actor
As quoted in Memorable Quotations: Jewish Writers of the Past (2005) edited by Carol A. Dingle.
“A novelist has more talent for written than oral assignments.”
Patrick Modiano (1945) French writer
From Nobel Lecture (2014)
“Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.”
Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881) Swiss philosopher and poet
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Journal
Jean de La Bruyère book Les Caractères
La critique souvent n'est pas une science; c'est un métier, où il faut plus de santé que d'esprit, plus de travail que de capacité, plus d'habitude que de génie. Si elle vient d'un homme qui ait moins de discernement que de lecture, et qu'elle s'exerce sur de certains chapitres, elle corrompt et les lecteurs et l'écrivain.
Aphorism 63
Les Caractères (1688), Des Ouvrages de l'Esprit