Quotes About Artistic Ability

#1. Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Paul Klee

#2. Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

Fran Lebowitz

#3. I'm a horrible drawer. I have no artistic ability in my hands.

Katharine McPhee

#4. He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control.

Agatha Christie

#5. I suspect everybody has a degree of psychic ability, just as a everybody has a degree of athletic or artistic ability. Some people have special gifts; other people have a particular interest that leads them to develop their abilities. But the phenomenon itself is ordinary and widespread.

Michael Crichton

#6. What makes people and companies and artistic directors and choreographers interested in working with dancers is the ability to kind of let go of everything you think you know and be a blank canvas.

Misty Copeland

#7. I can really say that I'm a pretty good receiver and came a long way.

Hines Ward

#8. Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

Mary Karr

#9. Leaders have the right to expect that others will compassionately recognize them.

William A. Adams

#10. Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals.

Deepak Chopra

#11. I am seeing a resurgence of entertainment that not only entertains, but inspires, evokes, and moves. I am seeing strength in the ability of artistic expression to change our future.

Ian Somerhalder

#12. 'Doom' aficionados expand their adventures as far as their imaginations and artistic abilities allow. Once players have exhausted the 'authorized' levels of 'Doom,' they can go on to explore thousands of additional unauthorized levels available in kits and on the Internet.

Marc Laidlaw

#13. When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.

Carly Fiorina

#14. It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.

Michael Moorcock

#15. Even enemies were an inch away from friendship.

Markus Zusak

#16. The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of labor.

Alfred Stieglitz

#17. Be passionate about what you write, believe in your ability to convey timeless ideas, and let no one tell you what what you're capable of.

Christina Westover

#18. Each of us is blessed with the ability to control our own decisions," she continued, "but cursed with the inability to control the decisions of others.

M.A. Larson

#19. Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know.

Vinod Khosla

#20. I deal in a very artistic way of what interests me and marks my passion, and I try to - whether its good or not - am in love with acting and the stage and characters and the ability to reach and to touch people, so that's where, I guess, that's where my heart will reside, by and large.

Angela Bassett

#21. I wanted to be the exception to the other kids, but in the right way.
We have a lot of suffering in our part of the world, but that suffering is, in a way, a blessing.
Obviously, I could not afford to go to school without a scholarship, so that meant I had to excel in order to get one.

Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

#22. The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist ... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings.

Plato