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Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience. (Leonard Bishop)
Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter. (Sergei Bongart)
"What would you call the highest happiness?" Wratislaw was asked. "The sense of competence", was the answer, given without hesitation. (John Buchan)
Learn to do the common things uncommonly well. (George Washington Carver)
Some aim to be deft, others to be laboriously careful. Neither dexterity nor conscientiousness is enough. (Lu Ch'Ai)
As a beginning student, an artist must first of all learn to represent faithfully any object that he has before him. The man who can do it is a painter; the man who cannot do it is not one. (John Collier)
No characteristic of the brain or body constrains an individual from reaching an expert level. (Dr. K. Anders Ericsson)
The guy may be totally motivated, connected and inspired, but if he doesn't know how to do it, he's not the guy to take out your appendix. (Robert Genn)
First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first. (Francisco de Goya)
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. (George Herbert)
The one thing that makes the true artist is a clear perception and a firm, bold hand. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible. (Anthony Hope)
Jackson is the most consummate sketcher I have ever known. These little panels, handy on the trail, could be handled as easily as an expert marksman uses a quiver full of arrows. (Arthur Lismer)
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula. (H. L. Mencken)
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. (Robert Motherwell)
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. (Laurence J. Peter)
Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it. (John Ruskin)
The drive to resist compulsion is more important in wild animals than sex, food, or water... The drive for competence or to resist compulsion is a drive to avoid helplessness. (Martin Seligman)
A good landscape painting is not just a demonstration of competent application of paint. It must offer a feeling of homage to the subject. (Keith Shackleton)
Dramatic use of color, harmonious design, the interplay of light and shadow across a variety of textures, the portrayal of the figure and other subject matter that reflects the sophistication and beauty I find in nature - all presented from a unique point of view - can only be successfully achieved with a sound command of the painter's craft... history will determine how successful I have been. (Nelson Shanks)
If you use all your acquired skills and allow a bit of latitude in the "doing" and not just the thinking, then you will produce some interesting results. (Ken Strong)
The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning. (Brian Tracy)
It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well. (Leonardo da Vinci)
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