Wayne Dyer Quotes

In love as in art, good technique helps.

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

It's only when an artist becomes a master that they are fully able to express themselves.

I wanted to express myself more fully through writing and directing. It just feels like a package deal. Anytime you create anything, you try to exert mastery over your world.

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

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

I know how to paint... In a way there is a boredom there because a lot of the magic is gone.

It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do it.

The hand that guides the brush has already caught and executed what floated before the mind at the same moment the mind began to form it, and in the end the pupil no longer knows which of the two-mind or hand -was responsible for the work.

There is more to creative mastership than the surface of satisfaction and political certainty. The music of Joe Fonda is part of a living tradition of belief and dedication. Future historians will be surprised at the breadth of Mr. Fonda's offerings. This is a real virtuoso and composer of the highest order.

If you go to a master to study and learn the techniques, you diligently follow all the instructions the master puts upon you. But then comes the time for using the rules in your own way and not being bound by them....You can actually forget the rules because they have been assimilated. You are an artist. Your own innocence now is of one who has become an artist, who has been, as it were, transmuted.... You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules.

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

And the part about being a professional artist is that you can tell, and you can do it over again, even if you can't say how you got there exactly.

To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.

The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice.

It's rare that a good writer will sit down and write a good script. Writers are greedy too, and they don't want to work without getting paid. But quality will find its way out.

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

Self-expression, to me, is something that you worked on, that you have mastered a skill to say something in the most artful way that you can. It's not just blurting stuff out and having verbal diarrhea.

In the music industry, it's pretty easy to make an album just because you want to keep going, like, 'This is the formula.' But the formula is your life. You have to live your life and you have to live it well - that's the formula.

I want to talk about things that are tangible and real to me, but I also want to do them in a way that's poetic and artistic.

Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bigness of his spirit and the littlenesses are in it.

I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.

I want painting to be difficult to do.

I just want to try - on a daily basis keep trying - to make music that I really love.

I write about what I want to write about, and so the film comes out as a very personal expression even if its subject matter is totally prefabricated.