Quotes About Skill

I shall become a master in this art only after a great deal of practice.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul.

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.

In the hands of a master, light and shade is one of the great qualities of art.

Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.

I don't have technique because I never learnt any.

Criticism is easy, art is difficult.

Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say.

The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.

The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish.

Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art.

I tried a very fancy attack I'd learned in France, which involved a beat, a feint in quarte, a feint in sixte, and a lunge veering off into an attack on his wrist. I nicked him, and the blood flowed.

I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.

Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.

The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter.

Drawing is the true test of art.

Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork.

How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy!... He who has not felt the difficulties of his art does nothing that counts.

Stage performing is a dying art form.