Daniel Hope Quotes

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

There is nothing quite as exciting as watching a master at work.

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

There are very few things of virtuosity or genius that you can actually witness.

Where is the stretch? Where is the perfect fit? Where does it make sense? You have to be a Baryshnikov.

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.

I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.

Remember, while the work can sometimes appear to be simple to a viewer, the ability to perform expertly, consistently, precisely, over and over again, under pressure and on demand is what's needed.

The biggest challenge to me is always technique.

I think there's something special about getting a moment perfect or near perfect. In a film, you can do that.

When something is well-crafted, you know it, and the enjoyment comes from experiencing it.

You've got to perfect your craft.

To be able to run routes, that's like the greatest thing to me. It's kind of like an art to me. It's like a painter drawing or something like that. That's how I feel every time I run a route.

I know that I make technical mistakes from time to time. It's one of the aspects of my game that I've been working on for years. I think I've managed to reduce the number of those technical mistakes to a minimum, but occasionally, they happen. On the other hand, I do have moments of technical brilliance.

I've always believed that you have to have the skills before you destroy the skills. If you want to be crude, be crude, but don't be crude because you don't know how to do it, because you're not perfect at drawing and pattern-cutting.

I take my craft seriously.

Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know that it could not be done better. In painting that never occurs.

To me, trying to achieve the balance is when you become good: when you have enough technique to be able to play what is that you want, but also when you can refine what you want to communicate to people. As a younger person, it wasn't something I thought about so much.

There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude.

Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with quality.

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

It is working within limits that the craftsman reveals himself.