Art Quote by Ruth Whitman

In every art beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them. And it is not only a…

— Ruth Whitman

Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the beginners from…

— Sarah Kay

The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“first model, the art academy,”

— Otto F. Kernberg

At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between…

— Alberto Giacometti

Art begins where technique ends. There can be no real art development before one's technique is firmly established. And a great deal of technical…

— Leopold Auer

One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look different every time one…

— Ernst Gombrich

Every artist is, first of all, a craftperson thoroughly knowledgeable about the materials, tools, and techniques of his or her particular medium and skilled…

— Freeman Patterson

Being a young artist, you know that you're not the first and there are a lot of people who have been there before you…

— Koffee

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

— Lauryn Hill

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

— Robert Frost

Every artist was first an amateur.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson