The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
— Robert Hughes, 1996
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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. — Robert Hughes, 1996
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. – Robert Hughes
Tejas Gawande added
- “The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."
[ Modernism's Patriarch ( Time Magazine , June 10, 1996)]”
― Robert Hughesfrom Depression Quotes (5285 quotes)
Alex Dobrenko added
The art critic Robert Hughes once said, ‘The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.’
from A Curiosity of Doubts: Penguin Special by T. L. Uglow
- “Lack of confidence kills more dreams than lack of ability.
Talent matters—especially at elite levels—but people talk themselves out of giving their best effort long before talent becomes the limiting factor.
You're capable of more than you know. Don't be your own bottleneck.”from 3-2-1: On confidence, the power of going first, and being a generalist by James Clear
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- Success has a nasty tendency to increase confidence more than ability. The longer it lasts, and the more it was tied to some degree of serendipity, the truer that becomes.
from Dangerous Feelings by Morgan Housel
sari added
- self-doubt sets your ceiling
from 3 Ideas, 2 Quotes, 1 Question (September 5, 2019) | James Clear by James Clear
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