Louise Wilson Quotes

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

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.

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

You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.

As to the 'St. Michael,' the subject is very fine, but very difficult, so I doubt that I shall find easily amongst my pupils one capable of carrying it out satisfactorily even after my own drawing. In any case, it will be necessary for me to touch it up carefully with my own hand.

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

The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.

I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.

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

Your timing has to be very accurate. I've done a lot of wire work before. I can see that experience makes a big difference.

With my own stuff, I've always held to the belief that it should take as long as it takes until it feels right.

I know that I make technical mistakes from time to time. It's one of the aspects of my game that I've been working on for years. I think I've managed to reduce the number of those technical mistakes to a minimum, but occasionally, they happen. On the other hand, I do have moments of technical brilliance.

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

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

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.

You never find virtuosity for its own sake.

When you go to Nashville and start co-writing, you start doing it as a job and the more you do it the better you get. You know if you build houses for 30 years you're better than you were the day you started. You know the ins and outs, you know all the nuances.

And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.

We're just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we're doing, and the reason why is that we've spent 30 years doing it. There's nothing that can replace that.

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.

Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique.

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

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

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.