It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.
A method of painting is a natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
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.
The first thing I put down on paper is a storyboard, like a film director.
A band like Depeche Mode would go out and record them hitting a trash can with a steel rod or something and recording it. And that would be one of their sounds of the drums. I love the creativeness of that kind of really raw sampling.
Art is craft, not inspiration.
Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.
Bend color names which should be made of neon or copper tubing. Place an object on a surface - trace the object - then bend the object - leaving some part of it attached.
By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.
With a 660-page book, you don't read every sentence aloud. I am terrified for the poor guy doing the audio book. But I do because I think we hear them aloud even if it's not an audio book. The other goofy thing I do is I examine the shape of the words but not the words themselves. Then I ask myself, "Does it look like what it is?" If it's a sequence where I want to grab the reader and not let the reader go then it needs to look dense. But at times I want the reader to focus on a certain word or a certain image and pause there.
Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT.
I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the technique, although with the publication of my new novel, Tarzan and the Lost Empire, there are 31 books on my list.
Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
When we was making a song called 'Bring Da Ruckus,' we took the snare, and we put it in an elevator shaft and recorded it.
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.
I take a pretty expansive view of craft, which is to say I don't see craft as just being technique - it's also process; subject; ideas and feelings; visions and dreams; the words that are put down and the words that are avoided.
My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too.
A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.
When I look at photographs, I couldn't care less "how."
One mustn't let technique be the consciously important thing. It should be at the service of expressing the form.
......so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.
I build a painting by putting little marks together-some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts.
I'm kind of a nerd, so whenever I get a chance to talk to an artist I really admire, I tend to gravitate to process.
I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.
I sometimes compare making a film to cooking. Some dishes need to be stewed, while others need to be fried.
