""Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture by photography; they lack the science, technical knowledge, and above all the practice. Most people think they can play tennis, shoot, write novels, and photograph as well as any other person - until they try."
More by Ralph Waldo Emerson
More on Skill
“To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.”
“Barney Kessel is incredible. He's just amazing . . . . Nobody can play guitar like that”
“Ingenuity in meeting and pursuing the pupil, that tact for the concrete situation, though they are the alpha and omega of the teacher's art, are things to which psychology cannot help us in the least.”
More on Practice
“The way anything is developed is through practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice and more practice.”
“Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.”
“Philosophy, certainly, is some account of truths the fragments and very insignificant parts of which man will practice in this workshop; truths infinite and in harmony with infinity, in respect to which the very objects and ends of the so-called practical philosopher will be mere propositions, like the rest.”