Jamie Hewlett Quotes

You do have to put in a lot time to get good at anything and than includes cartoons. So I think it's true of art and everything else.

You only get better by playing.

It's a complex sport; you're always learning.

You've got to perfect your craft.

I define talent as the rate at which you get better at something when you try. To be very talented means you get better faster and more easily than other people or other things that you try.

The biggest lesson I've learned about drawing is that it takes time. Which is really annoying.

Practice makes perfect.

If I've learned nothing else, it's that time and practice equal achievement.

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.

Either you have the ability to hit or not. But I also think you have to work at it.

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.

I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better.

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

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

Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.

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

If you're any good at all at what you do, you get better the more you do it.

Whatever it is you do, practice your art; practice your trade. Learn as much as you can about what it is you're doing and apply that as much as you can, because the application of it is what is going to mostly get you where you think you want to be.

I have to really work hard at my craft.

Experimenting is part of the process. I remember when I was younger, I spent a whole year just writing on straight trap beats because I just wanted to be able to do that at a high level. So it's about perfecting your craft in every way.

A lot of times I'll show someone a technique I got really good with, but I didn't put all the hours in. I didn't do the research and development. I didn't take it to the next level.

I work really hard on my craft.

I really feel that if you're gonna be good, you gotta practice... Practice whatever the hell you do.

Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.