Quotes About Skill

No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of the best - have educated themselves.

Good swiping is an art in itself.

You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct use of language.

He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery.

Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better.

The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing.

I'm going to teach you the art of swordsmanship-or in other words, how to totally kill someone with a sharp, pointy thing.

I want to be an improviser, and I've worked very hard at that. It's an art. You don't just play whatever comes into your head; you have to be very deliberate about what you do.

... alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit.

In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.

There's no art where there's no fee.

Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.

I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.

A lot of times your best sales rep, that A++ player, kills it on a regular basis...but can never describe how they do it. They look at sales as an art, not a science.

If you're an artist, you've got to prove it.

I've done all kinds of martial arts. I have my blackbelt in Shorei Ru. I'm doing Wu Shu. I do all kinds of different martial arts.

Magic is a powerful art that can support a weak performer.

I believe in art that conceals art.

I'm a terrible cook, but if I could cook, I would see that in art as well, it's how much creative energy you put into something.

I appreciated art, long before I could produce it.

Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.

Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well.

Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit.

I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.