Quotes About Mastery

You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.

One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.

And death shall have no dominion.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over Man by a scribbled name.

I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine arts; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest to reach true perfection.

Night and day, wind and storm, tide and earthquake, impeded man no longer. He had harnessed Leviathan. All the old literature, with its praise of Nature, and its fear of Nature, rang false as the prattle of a child.

He never retorted that the artist is not a bricklayer at all, but a horseman whose business it is to catch Pegasus at once, not to practise for him by mounting tamer colts. This is hard, hot and generally ungraceful work, but it is not drudgery. For drudgery is not art, and cannot lead to it.

one extra hour of study per day and you 'll be a national expert in five years or less

He guided the passions of others, because he was master of his own.

Courage is COMPETENCE!

A picture is something which requires as much knavery, trickery, and deceit as the perpetration of a crime. Paint falsely, and then add the accent of nature.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Rien en art ne doit ressembler à un accident, même le mouvement.

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

Of thy word unspoken thou art master; thy spoken word is master of thee.

Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.

In everything you do, refine your skills and knowledge about fundamental concepts and simple cases. Once is never enough. As you revisit fundamentals, you will find new insights. It may appear that returning to basics is a step backward and requires additional time and effort; however, by building on firm foundations you will soon see your true abilities soar higher and faster.

Deep work on simple, basic ideas helps to build true virtuosity—not just in music but in everything.

successful people regularly focus on the core purpose of their profession or life. True experts continually deepen their mastery of the basics. Trumpeting