Best artist & technique Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“As for techniques and processes, as seen in the works themselves, neither public nor artists will find anything about them here. Those things are learned in the studio and the public is interested only in the results.”

Artist Process Results Studios Technique Methodology

Book:Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists

Source: Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists

“Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it.”

Doe Artist Poverty Technique Permit Realism

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“For an intelligent estimate of your technique go to another artist working in the same medium.”

Artist Intelligent Technique Mediums

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“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.”

Art Artist Energy Practice Achieve Greatness Discipline Exercise Capable Art Is Technique Artistic Damn Piano Guarantees

Author:Dirk Benedict

“When an artist begins to count strokes instead of regarding nature he is lost. This preoccupation with technique, at the expense of truth and sincerity, is the principal fault I find in much of the work of modern painters.”

Artist Lost Modern Faults Technique Painter Expenses Sincerity Principal Strokes Preoccupation

Author:Joaquin Sorolla

“The artist may rightly venture the opinion that he does not convey ideas, does not preach, nor that he intents to convert people by using mass communication techniques.. .Better than handing out all kinds of wise advice, he could show life itself; he could awake forces lying dormant in everybody, he could launch an invitation to create direct and personal experiences.”

“Artists with a capital 'A' are at ease working in all areas of art, whether it is a contemporary abstract painting or work requiring methods and techniques of the Renaissance Masters.”

Art Artist Painting Masters Areas Method Technique Contemporary Ease Abstract Competence Renaissance Abstract Painting

Author:Igor Babailov

“It's so easy to get into the same routine. A novel every two years; perhaps, improving technique. But I'm not interested in that. I'm interested in doing something fundamentally important--and therefore, it needs time. And what I've been doing, really, is avoiding this pressure to get into the habit of one novel a year. This is what is expected of novelists. And I have never been really too much concerned with doing what is expected of novelists, or writers, or artists. I want to do what I believe is important.”

“What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique I had developed was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough.”

War Enough Problem Artist Stuff Gone Forever Glory Paint Technique Impression Visuals Impressionism

Author:A. Y. Jackson

“The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.”

Mean Matter Use Purpose Artist Subjects Technique Veils Great Art Subject Matter Great Artist Cloaks Resemblance

Author:John French Sloan

“Every artist is, first of all, a craftperson thoroughly knowledgeable about the materials, tools, and techniques of his or her particular medium and skilled in using many of them.”

Firsts Artist Particular Materials Tools Technique Mediums Knowledgeable

Author:Freeman Patterson

“Well, method is, it seems to me, a natural growth out of a need, and from a need the modern artist has found new ways of expressing the world about him. I happen to find ways that are different from the usual techniques, which seems a little strange at the moment, but I don't think there's anything very different about it. I paint on the floor and this isn't unusual - the Orientals did that.”

Thinking World Way Needs Wells Littles Different Moments Seems Happens Artist Found Growth Natural Modern Strange Method Paint Technique Unusual Usual New Ways Modern Art

Author:Jackson Pollock

“Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.”

Writing Wells Mean Doe Said Motivational Artist Order Forget Becoming Method Technique Grammar

Author:Andrei Tarkovsky

“To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.”

Artist Technique Irrelevant

Author:Bill Sienkiewicz

“We finally found out the technique of separating and getting information about where every train would be at any moment. Of course, I went over budget many times, because - as you go along - some things improved, and you get better ideas.”

Ideas Moments Would Be Artist Courses Found Information Train Technique Budgets Get Better Separating

Author:John Hench

“Rap isn't poetry, not least because it involves music and often other elements that aren't words. But the way poets in English use things like rhyme and meter, and the ways these conventions both do and don't apply to rap we try to lay out the rules for rap, in order to understand the techniques that artists like Jay-Z and Kanye employ.”

Way Trying Use Artist Order Poet Elements Lays Rap Technique Conventions Rhyme Meter

Author:Andrew Hoberek

“We do not know and cannot tell when the spirit is with us. Great talent or small, it makes no difference. We are caught within our own skins, our own sensibilities; we never know if our technique has been adequate to the vision.”

Ifs Knows Has Beens Spirit Artist Differences Vision Talent Skins Caught Technique Sensibility Adequate Great Talent

Book:The Irrational Season

Source: The Irrational Season

“As a fine artist I was drawn to composition and technique. I would count the cuts.”

Artist Cutting Fine Technique Composition Fine Arts Fine Artists

Author:Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

“A professional entertainer who allows himself to become known as a singer of folk songs is bound to have trouble with his conscience provided, of course, that he possesses one. As a performing artist, he will pride himself on timing and other techniques designed to keep the audience in his control ... his respect for genuine folklore reminds him that these changes, and these techniques, may give the audience a false picture of folk music.”

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