“If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from them.” IfsFormArtistPracticeConstantImitationNourishmentCrude Author:Cennino Cennini
“It takes great technique, tremendous discipline and energy and practice, and damn few are capable. Art is confidence. Technique makes it possible to achieve artistic greatness, but doesn't guarantee it. The great piano artists are not the ones who are best playing Clementi exercises.” ArtArtistEnergyPracticeAchieveGreatnessDisciplineExerciseCapableArt IsTechniqueArtisticDamnPianoGuarantees Author:Dirk Benedict
“In the context of a question regarding what an artist might be, I would want to raise the question of what a theorist might be, to signal how inextricably linked these existences and practices might be.” WantMightArtistExistencePracticeRaisesSignalsLinkedTheorists Author:James Elkins
“The study of art is a lifetime matter. The best any artist can do is to accumulate all the knowledge possible of art and its principles, study nature often and then practice continually.” ArtMatterArtistCan DoPrinciplesKnowledgePracticeStudyArt IsLifetime Author:Edgar Alwin Payne
“On every full moon, rituals ... take place on hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers, teachers, nurses, computer programmers, artists, lawyers, poets, plumbers, and auto mechanics -- women and men from many backgrounds come together to celebrate the mysteries of the Triple Goddess of the Dance of Life. The religion they practice is called Witchcraft.” MenTogetherArtistHousePracticeTeacherMysteryFieldsPoetMoonComputerOrdinaryMen And WomenLawyerBackgroundsCelebrateBeachRitualNurseGoddessMechanicWitchcraftPaganismProgrammersFull MoonPlumberComputer ProgrammersOpen FieldsWiccanAuto Mechanic Book:Spiral Dance: Slipcase Source: Spiral Dance: Slipcase
“There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose, and words are mine.” WritingArtArtistPracticeMinesPaintingMediumsYou Choose Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“To deceive gracefully is the very essence of social life. One must start by deceiving oneself, and make a lifelong practice of deceiving others; if one does it well enough, in time one might even become an artist, the greatest illusionists of all.” IfsWellsDoeEnoughMightArtistSocialPracticeEssenceOneselfDeceptionDeceivingLifelongSocial LifeIllusionistsDeceiving Others Book:The Mottled Lizard Source: The Mottled Lizard
“If some people are right, artists are put into this world not to practice their art, but to talk about it. And judging by the flattering invitations many a humble climber will receive to pontificate from the lowest rung but one of the ladder, humanity is in a dangerously receptive frame of mind, and artists a race devoid of either modesty or sense of humor.” PeopleIfsWorldMindArtArtistHumanityRacePracticeThis WorldJudgingHumbleSense Of HumorModestyLowestLaddersInvitationsPublicityFlatteringReceptiveFrame Of MindClimbers Book:Streaks of life Source: Streaks of life
“Recollect that to a woman who gets her living by her pen, 'time is money,' as it is to an artist. Therefore, encroaching on her time is lessening her income. And yet how often is this done (either heedlessly or selfishly) by persons professing to be her friends, and who are habitually in the practice of interrupting her in her writing hours.” WritingPersonsDoneArtistHoursPracticeIncomePensOften IsInterruptionsInterruptingTime Is Money Book:Selections from Eliza Leslie Source: Selections from Eliza Leslie