My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.
Pablo PicassoRead
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
Interpretation
Master the fundamentals of your craft to innovate and create uniquely.
This quote emphasizes the importance of understanding the foundational knowledge and techniques of any discipline before attempting to push boundaries or innovate. By mastering the rules, one gains the ability to creatively manipulate or break them, resulting in authentic artistic expression.
In practice
This quote can inspire art students to embrace both learning and creativity in their work.
My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.
On the technical side, I hope that my writing is evolving and maturing, ripening, deepening.
There is a twinge of abandonment that comes with being a member of the African Diaspora. But 'Black Panther' fearlessly introduces and then complicates this and other deeply held albeit rarely expressed emotions; that indeed is what makes this film so profoundly innovative.
Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
I think the blues is the best literature that we as blacks have created since we've been here. I call it our 'sacred book.' What I've attempted to do is to mine that field, to mine those cultural ideas and attitudes and give them to my characters.
Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
I didn't want to make cinema so a person forgets himself and has a lot of fun. 'I forget myself, I am a little poor consumer.' I wanted to make a picture where someone who sees it say, 'This is me! This is me!'
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