Leon Battista Alberti Quotes

In love as in art, good technique helps.

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

Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.

You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.

Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.

A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

Practice makes an actor excel. It is like cycling and motor driving. It is an art, which can be learnt and practised.

The more you draw, the better you get.

Everything has technique to it. So if there's something you wanna try out, I think it's always good to get a trainer or listen to people who know what they're doing.

The biggest lesson I've learned about drawing is that it takes time. Which is really annoying.

Painting is very interesting.

There are two kinds of people who do martial arts: those who practice a thousand different kicks one time each, and those who practice one kick a thousand times minimum. You can guess which group I belong to.

All art involves conscious discipline. If one is going to paint, do sculpture, design a building or write a book, it will involve discipline in time and energy — or there would never be any production at all to be seen, felt or enjoyed by ourselves or others. To develop ‘Hidden Art’ will also, of course, take time and energy – and the balance of the use of time is a constant individual problem for all of us: what to do, and what to leave undone. One is always having to neglect one thing in order to give precedence to something else. The question is one of priorities

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.

There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual.

The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.

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 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.

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

I still come closest to success with drawing.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.

I think magic, whether I'm holding my breath or shuffling a deck of cards, is pretty simple. It's practice, it's training, and it's - It's practice, it's training and experimenting, while pushing through the pain to be the best that I can be.

I'm being trained to shake the bon-bon appropriately.