Creative Skill Quotes

In the end, I get a really good song, and in the end, I get the hits. Yeah, I'm that good.

I think my own strengths are in television production.

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.

I want to be the most melodic artist. 'His music ability, the way he write, his creativity is undeniable.' I want people to say that about me.

Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic.

The way I make music, I know what I'm doing, because I been doing this for so long. This is the only thing I'm good at.

I did a song in eight minutes. I thought everybody could write songs that fast. But working with a lot of them, they don't.

I take a lot of pride in my photography.

I'm a musical genius.

She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is a thing curled deep inside, just waiting to be exercised, and at the slightest invitation it will stretch, shake itself, make itself known? Talent, it seems, is not so insistent.

It's very hard to tell somebody how to write when they're so good, and they're a brilliant writer and a really good guy.

A truly great artist has many talents.

I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

I think if you're good at art, you'll be good at most types of art.

In art, practice always comes before theory.

I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.

The idea comes to me from outside of me - and is like a gift. I then take the idea and make it my own - that is where the skill lies.

I had a moment where I realised I could do silly voices, that lots of people I knew couldn't do silly voices, and that thus I must be able to make money doing silly voices.

Look at related industries. Concept art for games and film. Animation. Lots of places to hone your skill as an artist and still earn a paycheck while you're waiting to kick the door down. If you're stubborn though, and you absolutely must draw comics because it's your life's dream (and I don't blame you...) you just better make sure you've got something special.

It takes practice to do anything unique within this field, period, in writing, practice doing anything unique in writing.

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

I think it's important to widen my artistic repertoire.

I am musical. I play guitar.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument - learning to do your craft - that's the most important thing! It's not about what goes on in a computer!