Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.
I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.
First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
True understanding is the spur of genius
People shouldn't get into show business because they want to become stars or become rich; they should get into it because they can't help but put on a show.
I don't even know at what age I started, because it's always been there. Performing... creating... it's in my DNA.
Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.
To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.
Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
There are certain things you can't coach, you've got to watch a guy do it.
Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
I wasn't born an artist. I was really good in science as a kid. I probably shouldn't have been an artist because I'm much more interested in science. But I was raised by artists. I can't really escape it.
Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure. It is perception without touch. It is understanding without research. It is certainty without proof. It is ability without practice. It is invention without limitations. It is imagination without boundaries. It is creativity without constraints. It is...extraordinary intelligence!
The bible does not say that a man's education makes room for him, but that his gifts does. Education is not the key to success, it doesn,t guarantee anything; it is your gift that is the key to success
I'm like one of those dudes who organically have talent.
No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left behind can the great poet and thinker, the great statesman and the great soldier, be replaced. For their activity lies always in the province of art. It is not mechanically trained but inborn by God's grace.
He was one of those people things came easily to, but he did little to demonstrate that he deserved to be gifted.
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
I was born singing. Most babies cry, I sang an aria.
There is no such thing as a natural boxer. A natural dancer has to practice hard. A natural painter has to paint all the time. Even a natural fool has to work at it.
I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.
All dreams reflect inborn creativity and ability to face and solve life's problems.
The spark of a genius exists in the brain of the truly creative man from the hour of his birth. True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned.
Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
We were never thrown into the situation in the middle of our lives, but grew up doing it. This is all we know, and some people who were thrown into it don't really know what to do or how to react and this is just kind of natural for us.
