Hide not your talents, they for use were made, What's a sundial in the shade?
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Benjamin Franklin
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
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Anonymous
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
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Mel Brooks
Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
More Quotes By Andrew Wyeth
I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future - the timelessness of the rocks and the hills - all the people who have existed there. I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure...
I think a person permeates a spot, and a lost presence makes the environment timeless to me, keeps an area alive. It pulsates because of that.
I think anything like that-which is contemplative, silent, shows a person alone-people always feel sad. Is it because we've lost the art of being alone?
If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.
It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.
