“I've always been a big fan of the stop-motion stuff. I'm not a big fan of the CG stuff.”— Wes Anderson
“It is not the subject that matters but the translation of the subject into the abstraction of the surface.”— Max Beckmann
“What is focus and who has a right to say what focus is the legitimate focus?”— Julia Margaret Cameron
“I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter.”— Milton Avery
“Technique is the test of your musicality. If you have a good technique, you can do what you want with the music. If you don't have technique, you can't do anything.”— Claudio Arrau
“You can't be a good hockey player and be a good golfer. The movements are so different.”— Bobby Hull
“My first successes in my out-of-focus pictures were a fluke. That is to say, that when focusing and coming to something which, to my eye, was very beautiful, I stopped there instead of screwing on the lens to the more definite focus which all other photographers insisted upon.”— Julia Margaret Cameron
“A lot of my sounds are built up with layers. I'm not a great soloist, but I'm good at creating textures.”— Geoff Downes
“The first thing I do when I start a painting is I paint the eyes. If the eyes don't work, the painting doesn't work.”— Frank Frazetta
“There is no branch of detective science that is so important and so difficult to carry out as that of shadowing.”— Allan Pinkerton
“Shadow is a color as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.”— Paul Cézanne
“The secret of shifting is that you never leave the old note until you have arrived at the new one.”— Leonard Rose