Quotes About Technique

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

Drawing is the true test of art.

Good swiping is an art in itself.

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

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.

I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.

Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit.

Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

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

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

Cooking certainly has some of the elements of an art form.

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.

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

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

Engraving then, is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch.

I'm a martial arts buff, so anything martial arts.

I'm an artist. I'm interested in how art gets made.

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

Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it.

[Rewriting is] a whole other art form; it's about craftsmanship.

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

Made poetry a mere mechanic art.