Skillful Execution Quotes

What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat in such a way that it may afterward appear, however much it was laboured upon, to have been done almost quickly and almost without any labour, and very easily, although it was not.

I've taken countless shots in my life, so you know the ones when you're in rhythm, with a perfect release, and it's on track, that it's going in.

Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.

In most fields of endeavor there are no easy jobs; there are only graceful ways of performing difficult ones.

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.

Only that which is well done is quickly done.

You've got to do it all, the physical as well as the skilful.

If I can be number one in the world without power hitting, then I don't need power hitting. But when I need to, I utilise it well.

Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well.

One paints with one's head, not one's hand.

In love as in art, good technique helps.

An artist of understanding and experience can show more of his great power and art in small things roughly and rudely done, than many another in a great work. A man may often draw something with his pen on a half sheet of paper in one day . . . . and it shall be fuller of art and better than another's great work whereon he hath spent a whole year's careful labor.

Talent without craft is like fuel without an engine, it burns wildly but accomplishes nothing.

He(C. Ronaldo) makes the most difficult plays look easy.

Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.

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.

Art is anything people do with distinction.

An old trick well done is far better than a new trick with no effect.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

If you are just constantly doing the same thing, good batters can adjust.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique.

Don't try to be original; just try to be good.

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

I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it, because many interesting challenges are set up, and because I have the hope it may do some good.