Richard MacDonald Quotes

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

I still come closest to success with drawing.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

You can't rush an art form.

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

If I had to pick an artist that I look up to and am inspired by, it's Matisse because of how many times he would paint the same idea until he felt like he maybe got it right, and I try to do the same thing with my writing.

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

The practice of any art demands more than 'mere savoir faire'. One must not only be in love with what one does, one must also know how to make love. In love self is obliterated. Only the beloved counts.

Repetitiveness and discipline are the secrets of cake decorating. The art comes from the meticulous technique, the way it does for a dancer.

What I've learned from sketch is you can get it as perfect as you want, and it's never going to be perfect.

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

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

I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.

Designing was an effortless exercise and something I always enjoyed.

I've been to the studio several times, and it's not that I'm not happy with what I've got, but each time I come away, I feel that I've learned something that I want to work on.

I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.

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.

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

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

The more you draw, the better you get.

The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.

After writing quite a few songs now, I have not a method but a way of being patient with a couple of verses or a certain set of chords. I can match them up quicker now than I used to. The one thing you do improve is songwriting.

I be on some, perfecting my craft, just making sure the music is all the way there.

One of the great things about doing a play, repeating it over and over again, is that you can practice. And you can get really quite good at it for a while.

Art is something in which you are never an expert at any point of time. It's something you hone all the time and something which is elusive all the time.