Quotes About Skill

Each body has its art.

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.

If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you're doing becomes art.

I'm not "filled with my art". I ain't got no art. I've got only a kind of craftsman's skill, and make stories as I make biscuits or embroider underwear or wrap up packages.

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

It is ten per cent how you draw, and ninety per cent what you draw.

Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.

The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.

The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.

Art is craft, not inspiration.

Seduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.

Everybody who cares for his art seeks the essence of his own technique.

Genius is the art of taking pains

Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

I try to conceal art with art.

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

Acting is the ability to keep an audience from coughing.

When you really get technique... there is no strength that will stop you.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.