Skills are cheap. Passion is priceless.

...to be skillful in domestic duties was surely one of the most charming of woman's qualities.

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

“However enlightened and however skilful a central power may be, it cannot of itself embrace all the details of the existence of a great nation.”

“It takes great skill to do the right thing at the right time.”

“Whatever be the actual state of the skill, dexterity, and judgment, with which labour is applied in any nation, the abundance or scantiness of its annual supply must depend, during the continuance of that state, upon the proportion between the number of those who are annually employed”

“The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.”

"There is no art without intention."

"If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."

"To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery."

"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."

"It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately."

"The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed."

"My favourite comedian, of course, is Tim Conway. He has a way about him - being that belly-laugh kind of funny, and he has the improvisational skills, too. I've never seen anybody better."

"All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence."

The art of survival is a story that never ends.

I have too much product, and I'm trying to rein it in and sell more of my main collection. I wish you didn't have to design so often; it would be good if you could keep on selling the same things for a few years and not have to do new things all the time.

Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

“Art is a house that tries to be haunted.” 

Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words: this is good luck.

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

Poetry moves heaven and earth.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.