There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.
Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.
I don't have to work on it. I'm naturally a writer. The rapping and writing, they can go hand-in-hand - but rapping is an art that you have to practice and master, so I worked at it for a long time.
I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.
Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it
The art is the challenge which you must meet every day: the technique you should learn to control with time. The science and the art of photography are really one, and not opposed to each other.
I listen to music all the time. I write while listening to music. And I tell myself that the music nourishes the art forms that I do master and domesticate, and have authority over.
Chess, like other arts, must be practiced to be appreciated.
No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.
My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.
I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.
I really believe that if you practice enough you could paint the 'Mona Lisa' with a two-inch brush.
I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting.
To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
Every separate sector of artistic creation has its own basic rules . . . data which govern it. They are contained in the textbooks on these subjects. A professional knows the rules of the game as a matter of course so that he can achieve, in the upper strata above that, a high quality of art.
Art can only be taught by artists.
The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain the habit of drawing parts of the body well; and then to work from nature, to confirm the lessons learned.
When you become sufficiently expert in the state of the art, you stop picking ideas at random. You are thoughtful in how to select ideas and how to combine ideas. You are thoughtful about when you should be generating many ideas versus pruning down ideas.
Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.
My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.
It takes time to learn to draw. It takes years, not a few weeks.
PRACTICE OF THE Art of Peace enables you to rise above praise or blame, and it frees you from attachment to this and that.
Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
