Quotes About Precision

Genius is the art of taking pains

Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them.

The year is always correct, also the month, only the day can be another. But that occurs to me only in the moment of writing it down.

More matter with less art.

Killing with the point lacks artistry, but don't let that hold your hand when the opening presents itself.

Robert Creely's poems have two main characteristics. 1) They are short; 2) they are not short enough.

Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood.

Good swiping is an art in itself.

Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater.

I try to really take my art serious, and pay attention to detail.

Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement

All art does but consist in the removal of surplusage.

Cars for me are like a piece of art.

Survival is an art. It requires the dulling of the mind and the senses, and a delicate attunement to waiting, without insisting on precision about just what it is you are waiting for.

Formal art is essentially rational.

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

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

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

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

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

Mathematics is really an art, not a science.

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

I really think that martial arts and music are very close to each other and both require a lot of focus and improvisation because you don't know where or when you're going to get kicked!

A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present.