Artistic Proficiency Quotes

I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.

The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.

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

I think talent decides everything. More than the method, what's important is the talent using it. There's nothing inherently wrong or right about a method, whether it be pencil drawings or 3-D CG. Pencil drawings don't have to go away, but those who continue to use the medium lack talent. So sadly, it will fade away.

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.

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

Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

In love as in art, good technique helps.

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

I dislike a picture that is too suave or too skilfully done. But, contrariwise, I also dislike a picture that looks too inept or blundering.

I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.

In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.

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.

With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of something besides technique.

I paint because I love to paint. If someone buys the prints or whatever, so be it, but it's not my main form of business. As a performer, that is my main form of business.

I read the other day that Minor White said it takes twenty years to become a photographer. I think that is a bit of an exaggeration. I would say, judging from myself, that it takes at least eight or nine years. But it does not take any longer than it takes to learn to play the piano or the violin. If it takes twenty years, you might as well forget about it!

The excellence of every art, must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose

Not very many people can draw who are illustrators today.

None of the arts are any good unless you really are great at them.

If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the fourth storey to the ground, you will never be able to produce great works.

It takes time to learn to draw. It takes years, not a few weeks.

Every great artist must begin by learning to draw with the single line, and my advice to young animators is to learn how to live with that razor-sharp instrument or art. An artist who comes to me with eight or ten good drawings of the human figure in simple lines has a good chance of being hired. But I will tell the artist who comes with a bunch of drawings of Bugs Bunny to go back and learn how to draw the human body. An artist who knows that can learn how to draw ANYTHING, including Bugs Bunny.

I went to school for fine art. I'm a decent housepainter, but I'm a really good fine art painter.

There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate.

I think I'm a much better painter than an actor.