Bryson DeChambeau Quotes

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.

There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work.

You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft.

You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative; you may play the piano most brilliantly, and not be a musician. You may be able to handle color, to put paint on canvas most cleverly, and not be a creative painter. You may create a face, an image out of a stone, because you have learned the technique, and not be a master creator. Creation comes first, not technique.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

I have always had a certain rhythmic approach to my work.

Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

I see only one requirement you have to have to be a director or any kind of artist: rhythm. Rhythm, for me, is everything. Without rhythm, there's no music. Without rhythm, there's no cinema. Without rhythm, there's no architecture.

Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

When you have a brush in your hand, inking a beautiful woman is a lot like running your hands over her.

Craft is part of the creative process.

An artist is not special. An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.

It's not just music. To me, it's songwriting more than anything. A lot of people say it's expression, but to me, it's more than that.

I think you've gotta be smart enough to be competent, but you've gotta be crazy enough to go out there and just let it all happen. I mean, you can rehearse and still not be musical, be tight and not be musical; we all hated that.

Tap is still the central driving force of my life. I think and talk in dance.

A journalist uses the most precise words he or she can. An artist does the same sort of thing. You gather material about a particular subject, you refine it as best you can.

I've always had good songs, it's the great songs that are difficult to find.

They [say] everybody's creative. Well, everybody is. But any real creativity has to rest on a basis of an acquired technique and an acquired knowledge; you can't be creative in a void, or you just get a mess.

If you can make a little painting for the ears with a few words, well, I like words; I like cutting them up and finding different ways of saying the same thing... I get into a spell, and it all comes easy. I don't labor over it. I go inside the song, I think you make yourself an antenna for songs, and songs want to be around you. And then they bring other songs along, and then they're all sitting around, and they're drinkin' your beer, and they're sleeping on the floor. And they are using the phone, they're rude, thankless little f---ers.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

It takes skill to bring something you've imagined into the world: to use words to create believable lives, to select the colors and textures of paint to represent a haystack at sunset, to combine ingredients to make a flavorful dish. No one is born with that skill. It is developed through exercise, through repitition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time. . . . If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.