“Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fi...” — Edgar Degas Quote

“Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.”

“What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.”

“One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.”

“Difficulty empathising translates into a whole set of hurdles. You might be last person to get the point of a joke, which can leave you feeling like an outsider. You might end up saying something that another person finds hurtful or offensive, when that was the last thing you intended.”

“Between children and parents, there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people.”

“I do understand that, having been a minister, there is difficulty putting stuff into legislation which is being negotiated. I quite understand.”