Leon Battista Alberti Quotes

If you want to depict something exactly the way it is, it takes a tremendous amount of time. If you don't get the details right, the inaccuracies will accumulate somewhere.

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

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

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

Exactitude is not truth.

There's something in human performance that is very smooth and very fluid, and at the same time it can be very precise, and that can take a lot of time, trial and error.

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.

Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible.

I like to rehearse to the point we're in the ballpark, and expect that we're only going to get one proper take, more or less.

I used to watch Juninho's free-kicks without being able to figure out how he hit them. I tried and tried until, eventually, I came up with my own way to strike them.

I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.

You have to always work on your batting as you are never perfect. I am working on my batting every day and trying to perfect a few shots that will help me score all around the world.

Done right, precision can help clarify, plus it's fun.

That is what shooting is. There is no secret sauce, man. You've got to find mechanics that you can make the same every time, and you've got to do it over and over again, and you can't just shoot for rhythm. You've got to understand what you are doing. You have to focus on those details every day.

One thing you learn about doing nonfiction is that you've got to get it right, fact-check, do your research. You've got to not only get the facts right but represent the subject to the world in a way that insiders feel like it's an access port and outsiders can access it. If you're too insider, you block access to anyone else.

Precision matters, breh.

Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right.

It's not about size, it's a science.

The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe.

Every little detail to every little movement must be perfect. Perfection in movement.

When I practiced, I practiced to get it right.

Once you learn to hit, teach yourself to never miss again.

So, they have the same vibe of like that fun kind of spirit, but this one's a lot more serious. It's like, get it done, get it done right, you know? It's got to be perfect. We definitely do lots of takes on this.

The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was digitization, which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh.

Bring your work back to the workshop twenty times. Polish it continuously, and polish it again.