Talent.....

For every artist who has developed a mature vision with grace and speed, countless others have laboriously nurtured their art through fertile periods and dry spells, through false starts and breakaway bursts, through successive and significant changes of direction, mediums, and subject matter. Talent may get someone off the stating block to strive faster, but without a sense of direction or a goal to strive for, it won't count for much. The world is filled people who were given great natural gifts, sometimes conspicuously flashy gifts, yet never produce a thing. And when that happens the world ceases to care whether they are talented