Anthony Yarde Quotes

Quality and perfection are achieved with time. You do not create a perfect painting or a perfect poem by hurrying. Time is always coming.

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

You can't rush an art form.

I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.

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.

When I was a carpenter, I once worked with this Russian lady architect. I would tell her, ‘Look, I’m terribly sorry, but I want to change that a half inch,’ and she would say, ‘No limit for better.’ I think that is a worthy credo. You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow.

Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art at all. The two things more and more become one rather than two different aspects of my life.

What I've learned from sketch is you can get it as perfect as you want, and it's never going to be perfect.

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

I don't care if you're doing haute cuisine or burgers and pizza, just do it right.

Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.

God is in the details.

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.

You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.

What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.

It's hard to shape glass. It took me years of practice, and as a result, I've never gotten bored with it. It's difficult. Every time I come into the studio, I've got some sort of new challenge. And something that I would like to learn how to do better, and the material never disappoints me.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

Art is all in the details.

The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.

When you look at Beyonce, every interview she does is just perfect delivery, perfect execution, and the thing is, she has honed that skill down.

Whatever I do, whether it's cooking shows, books or events, the details count and that's what sets me apart from other food TV personalities. If you take out the details what's left?

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.

A journalist uses the most precise words he or she can. An artist does the same sort of thing. You gather material about a particular subject, you refine it as best you can.

Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know that it could not be done better. In painting that never occurs.

The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.