Paul Gauguin Quotes

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

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.

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

Dancers are made, not born.

The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.

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

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.

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

... keep practicing. After a great deal of practice, we no longer think about all the necessary movements we must make; they become part of our existence. Before reaching that stage, however, you must practice and repeat. And if that's not enough, you must practice and repeat some more.

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

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.

Craft is part of the creative process.

To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.

I've learned my tricks watching videos on the Internet with friends. I'm always trying to copy what I've seen at home, what I learned from my friends. But you have to repeat it again and again to get it right on the field.

I think hitting's just repetition. The more you hit, the better you're gonna get.

All I've done since I was young was hone my craft.

I used to spend hours on the laptop watching free kicks on YouTube - again and again. You obviously learn a thing or two.

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

The more you style, the better you get. Don't give up. At a certain point, the magic happens.

In art, practice always comes before theory.

It takes skill to bring something you've imagined into the world: to use words to create believable lives, to select the colors and textures of paint to represent a haystack at sunset, to combine ingredients to make a flavorful dish. No one is born with that skill. It is developed through exercise, through repitition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time. . . . If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

The purpose of technique is to free the unconscious. If you follow the rules ploddingly, they will allow your unconscious to be free.

In love as in art, good technique helps.

I think as an actor, or any artist, you move with your moods and you express what's going on for you, and you answer to that voice within that's calling for particular things.

There is something about the creative process... which is that you can't talk about it. You try to think of anecdotes about it, and you try to explain, but you're never really saying what happened... it's a sort of happy accident.