Peter Paul Rubens Quotes

I've always believed that you have to have the skills before you destroy the skills. If you want to be crude, be crude, but don't be crude because you don't know how to do it, because you're not perfect at drawing and pattern-cutting.

To me, trying to achieve the balance is when you become good: when you have enough technique to be able to play what is that you want, but also when you can refine what you want to communicate to people. As a younger person, it wasn't something I thought about so much.

I'm always in awe of people who are artists in their fields - people who understand that simply by taking ideas and translating them into reality, they've created value in the world.

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.

I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult.

You have to be creative. It's the basics. You can't be Picasso unless you know how to draw a real face; then you can turn it upside down.

If you are afflicted with an artistic feeling, it's just perfecting something.

I doubt Picasso ever painted a picture in an hour, he took his time, looked at every detail and made sure it was perfect.

I think there's no truer and more pure purpose than to be able to refine your art to a point where you feel it's as possible as it can be.

Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

If you want to just make a good movie, if you don't enjoy every step and become a master of each little moment, then you shouldn't be doing it.

To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.

There can be no 'graduated exercises in drawing' leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit.

It's really amazing to stand in front of a work you haven't seen before and be almost overwhelmed by its beauty and the vision and execution of the artist.

So many of my paintings, people would be like, 'What more do you have to do?' But the smallest little things make all of the difference.

Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist!

It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes. The ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one's own hand - that is what is necessary.

After 'A Love Extreme,' I thought I must do something that stands up to that - at least. I can't top it. You should never attempt to top something that is magical, because that's just bad magic.

Collage is not a kitchen sink; it's not a refuge for the compositionally disabled.

When art is about craftsmanship, then guys like me don't make it as artists.

The dot stands for 'detail' - always be paying attention to detail. I feel that people take you as serious as you take yourself. I spent a lot of time working on my craft, developing my style, and after I came out of my little incubation, I promised that I would pay attention to detail.

Clare Henderson creates the most beautiful delicate prints and paintings.