Quotes About Technique

Shankar Basu introduced me to a different type of training that eventually helped me increase my pace. That, in turn, went on to help me bowl at the death, too.

Growing up, I played on matting wickets. I always enjoyed the pace and bounce and somewhere that has a big role or big effect on your game.

Dybala is three pages ahead of the rest in the football manual.

I only read the left-hand pages, so I finish books twice as fast.

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

If you want to learn how to paint, go to Caravaggio.

From my earliest memories, my aunt was squirting out oil paint. I could just eat it. I would go from her studio and walk down to my father's house, and there he was, working in egg tempera.

I learned to paint in a historical method. First through watercolours and then through oil. Then, when I went to college and to the school of architecture, I took up modern painting.

To be able to run routes, that's like the greatest thing to me. It's kind of like an art to me. It's like a painter drawing or something like that. That's how I feel every time I run a route.

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.

In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have nothing but disaster.

Easel painting means small painting.

I'm just really impressed by oil paintings - I don't see how people do it! That's the style I like: classic oil paintings. Abstract art just isn't my thing.

All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.

My fingertips are my favorite makeup brush! I especially like to apply my eye shadow with them, get it nice and smudgy. All my favorite makeup artists used their fingers to apply and their hand as a palette.

Cooking is physical; it's easier to learn than playing golf. You chop food, you pan fry it - what else is there to it?

For a while, I was drawing on good paper, but now I've gone back to the bad stuff. I put matte medium on it. If you put matte medium on it, it seals up, so it doesn't really matter.

Normally, midfielders only pass the ball, but I dribble as well.

The truth is I like the style of playing the ball out and hitting long passes.

I like Jorginho, the way he plays and passes.

I'd say my main quality is keeping the ball and my passing.