Lucy Walker Quotes

I work really hard on my craft.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.

You only get better by playing.

I really believe in myself. I'm the hardest worker I know, and one of the best songwriters. There's a craft to it, and it takes a long time to hone it, and I work really hard at it.

I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the beginners from experienced artists.

You have to hone your craft, but you also have to be born with a certain amount of talent, and I never took the talent for granted - I've always worked really hard to be as good as I could be.

One thing that stays the same is my passion for music. Other than that, I've become more dedicated. I think that I really work much harder than I ever did when I first started at my craft; I'm more dedicated, and I have become a perfectionist.

The more you draw, the better you get.

I've got to perfect my game. Keep working.

I'm always practising because I enjoy it.

I refuse to write the same story twice. I keep experimenting. I keep learning how to work. I've been at it pretty much 50 years, and I'm now beginning to learn how to do the job well.

I actually believe that a lot of what people call originality has to do with persistence in the craft.

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

One thing you notice is, there's a lot of people with raw talent, and then there's people who take that talent and work hard.

You create a blueprint of your best performance, and you're happiest the night you surpass that blueprint. That won't happen that often, but it will happen. It's like sculpting: you keep refining. When you have a piece that is yours, that is just you, that becomes obsessive; you think about it all the time.

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

You can have a knack for dancing, but you still have to practice till your feet are bleeding to be worthy of being in front of an audience.

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

I think it's important that your first film be your worst film, that one's life trajectory should go up.

It's all about learning your craft and honing it in and really paying attention to people who are doing it and what their advice is. It's like anything: it takes years and years and years. A lot of it comes down to work ethic.