Untalented Quotes

“Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder.”

“Being rich is an untalented artist’s consolation prize.”

“Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.”

“When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a little better. Otherwise, you would just stop.”

“Untalented people, unintelligent people go into politics. Those who are talented become artists, painters, poets, philosophers, mystics, dancers. They have a thousand and one other beautiful things to do, not politics. Only the third rate, the most unintelligent part of a country, moves into politics.”

“I fight cynicism. It`s too easy. It`s really boring. It`s much harder to be positive and see the wonder of everything. Cynicism is a bunch of people who aren`t as talented as other people, knocking them because they make them feel even more untalented.”

“People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.”