Gilbert Hernandez Quotes

My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

There's no shortcut to learning a craft; you just have to put the years in.

I read the other day that Minor White said it takes twenty years to become a photographer. I think that is a bit of an exaggeration. I would say, judging from myself, that it takes at least eight or nine years. But it does not take any longer than it takes to learn to play the piano or the violin. If it takes twenty years, you might as well forget about it!

It takes ten thousand hours to truly master anything. Time spent leads to experience; experience leads to proficiency; and the more proficient you are the more valuable you'll be.

With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of something besides technique.

I do not see in what manner practice alone can be sufficient for the production of correct, excellent, and finished pictures. Works deserving this character never were produced, nor ever will arise, from memory alone.

Every new skill you learn, every adventure you go on, every new thing you try, it only makes you a better artist.

Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it

There's always this assumption that you're going to get everything right immediately. And any professional understands that that's just not so.

Chess, like other arts, must be practiced to be appreciated.

I used my mind, and then eventually the method I used allowed me to master my craft.

There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual.

Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.

To become really good at anything, you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive.

The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master contract player.

You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.

But as we went on, and you keep practicing and rehearsing more and more fight scenes, it clicks and you just get it. It's almost like a soccer game. If you take enough shots on target, one of them is going to go in. As soon as it does, something happens and it just registers. I found it a lot easier after that, which was about three-quarters of the way through the shoot.

It's not like you get up on stage and you're immediately a genius. It takes a long time. So, don't be discouraged.

I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches.

It's easy to learn but takes a lifetime to master.

I believe that we learn by practice.

All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?

A modern economy and society requires skilled people, so you need to train them.

Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit.