A Quote by Willa Cather

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.

Willa Cather

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Willa Cather
American - Author
December 7, 1873 - April 24, 1947

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

Willa Cather

In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations of his talent.

Eugene Delacroix

The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.

Orson Welles

An artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as disciplined as a mathematician. Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom. It prepares an artist to choose his own limitations.

Wayne Thiebaud

If an artist is one who spends his life trying to define his being, I guess I would have to call myself an artist.

Roger Ballen

It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.

James Baldwin

It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics.

Robert Breault

Before a big acting competition, my dad sent me a note that said, 'Define the moment. Don't let the moment define you.'

Katie Leclerc

Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's limitations. To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The first two major label records I did what I wanted to do. It wasn't a problem until after I finished my part. They didn't understand I was an artist, a capable artist. When you're the money dealing with the talent, you need to let that talent develop, your job is to figure out how to sell it.

Van Hunt

I never considered myself an artist. I aspire to be an artist, but I never thought I had the depth or substance or gift to be an artist. I do think I have some talent, but it doesn't go as far as being an artist.

Woody Allen

An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy.

Norman Reilly Raine

You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.

Robert Breault

Every artist knows that there is no such thing as "freedom" in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins a new work is to lay down the barriers and limitations; he decides upon a certain composition, a certain key, a certain relation of creatures or objects to each other. He is never free, and the more splendid his imagination, the more intense his feeling, the farther he goes from general truth and general emotion.

Willa Cather

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.

Leonard Bernstein

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