Quotes About Skill

In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.

A master of an art is someone who's been mastered by the art. They've become so one with what they teach that you can't tell the teacher from the student.

If you can draw the stone rightly, everything within reach of art is also within yours.

To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

Comedy is very hard, but you have to learn the art and science of it.

The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly.

Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.

In art, I think it's not useful to be a professional of the profession. It will not give you something new.

It has always been recognized that chess is an art, and its best practitioners have been described as artists.

To measure up takes skill, but to err is an art.

It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again.

Football is an art form in itself. All sports are.

Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communicators in person.

Being a head designer or art director or just even a designer, you need a certain level of experience and maturity.

Being funny is a gift, and, when done well, is an art form.

Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.

Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.

Art without heart is craft.

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

Beerbohm was a genius of the purest kind. He stands at the summit of his art.

In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.

I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception.

Knowing when you're not good at something and knowing when you are good at something is an art-form.

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?