Quotes About Skill

The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.

Distinguí a un lado de la aldea a un grupo de artesanos, que con destreza y sentido innato de la estética y la armonía de las formas, elaboraban hermosas vasijas de barro.

Wrestling is ballet with violence.

First of all, the practice of an art requires discipline. I shall never be good at anything if I do not do it in a disciplined way; anything I do only if I am in the mood may be a nice or amusing hobby, but I shall never become a master in that art.

Se alguém quer tomar-se mestre em alguma arte, deve ter a vida inteira devotada a ela, ou pelo menos relacionada com ela. A própria pessoa se toma um instrumento para a prática da arte e deve ser conservada em condições adequadas, de acordo com as funções específicas que tem a desempenhar.

Antes de tudo, a prática de uma arte exige disciplina. Nunca serei bom em coisa alguma, se não a fizer de modo disciplinado; tudo que eu só puder fazer quando "estiver disposto" pode ser uma diversão bonita ou aprazível, mas nunca me tornarei mestre nessa arte.

tornar-se consciente de que o amor é uma arte, assim como viver é uma arte; se quisermos aprender como se ama, devemos proceder do mesmo modo por que agiríamos se quiséssemos aprender qualquer outra arte, seja a música, a pintura, a carpintaria, ou a arte da medicina ou da engenharia

Stillness is not the absence or negation of energy, life, or movement. Stillness is dynamic. It is unconflicted movement, life in harmony with itself, skill in action. It can be experienced whenever there is total, uninhibited, unconflicted participation in the moment you are in—when you are wholeheartedly present with whatever you are doing.

become works of art so detailed, so precisely articulated

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?

Anyone can be a fisherman in May.

However you make your living is where your talent lies

He knew everything when he started. The others can't ever learn what he was born with.

It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.

I don't have to be proud of it. I only have to do it well. – Thomas Hudson

It was never what he had done,but always what he could do. And he had chosen to make his living with something else instead of a pen or a pencil

Que va," the boy said. "There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only you.

There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.

We must all be cut out for what we do, he thought. However you make your living is where your talent lies.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master

I have tried simply to write the best I can; sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

Dentuso je bio okrutan, vješt, snažan i pametan. Ali ja sam bio pametniji od njega. A možda i nisam. Možda sam bio samo bolje oboružan. - Nemoj sad razmišljati, stari - re?e starac. - Plovi samo dalje i ne daj se kad opet do?u! Ali moram razmišljati, pomisli. Ništa mi drugo ne preostaje. To, i bejzbol.

Qué va, the boy said. There are many good fisherman and some great ones. But there is only you.