Quotes About Skill

Writing talent is similar to the art of chatting up a girl. You can improve to a certain degree through practice, but basically you are either born with it or you aren't.

there's no art but has some business to it and no business but some art.

Most importantly fighters in my day knew the most important art in boxing - feinting.

We try not to encourage demonstrations of his mastery of the gaseous arts.

People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion.

Headline writing is an art form.

Craft is not a category; it's a means. The folks running the museum [Museum of Arts and Design]are sharp, and they know this, but they are in a bind.

What I'm good at is making art.

It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.

There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual.

Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.

I went to school for fine art. I'm a decent housepainter, but I'm a really good fine art painter.

There are times when quantity is at least as important as quality in learning an art.

Martial arts are art forms and require a great deal of discipline and dedication. I so admire people who focus their lives on it, because it's not an easy thing to do.

I don't consider myself a songwriter, I've tried, I've written a few with friends but that's an art form I'm gonna leave to guys like Jimmy Ritchey and Kevin Fowler.

I'm not the greatest driver. I don't know if I'll ever master the art.

For some players, luck itself is an art

In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile to express by its means.

It is not easy to recover an art when once lost.

It is art to conceal art. -Ars est celare artem

Art lies in concealing art.

Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.

I was good at art - always good at art.

...if I can do it, it's not art.