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

This quote by Edgar Degas talks to the idea that skill is something that is inherent in everybody, but it is not something that is guaranteed to last. At twenty-five, most of us have the possible to be talented in some way, but as we age, it becomes progressively tough to maintain that skill. Degas is suggesting that it is inadequate to just have talent at a young age; we have to additionally work to cultivate and also nurture it in order to maintain it active. This quote works as a suggestion that talent is something that has to be nurtured as well as created in time in order to be sustained. It is not something that can be taken for given, and also it is something that has to be proactively dealt with in order to be kept. Degas' words are a suggestion that talent is something that should be proactively cultivated and nurtured in order to be sustained.