Quotes About Mastery

What matters most to me? To work with my model until I have it enough in me to be able to improvise, to let my hand run free.

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings.

Artists with a capital 'A' are at ease working in all areas of art, whether it is a contemporary abstract painting or work requiring methods and techniques of the Renaissance Masters.

Steve Smith is a marvelous player.

I love Steven Meisel and David Sims' work, I think they're both amazing photographers. I want to be at the same level as them one day.

I think there are always people who, when they get the bug to play an instrument, they want to get as good as they can with it rather than just be simply adequate at it. You run into them every once in a while - some kid who wants to be the next Stevie Ray Vaughan, for whatever reason, and plays exactly like him.

Stevie Winwood played like I'd never heard anybody play before. It just gave me goose bumps.

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest and not yet the second which comes with a sort of mastery.

As a new ball bowler, it's my job to stick to the basics.

You want to stick with one sport and master one thing and be good, yeah, you might be able to go to more combines, but the life experiences and athleticism you get from playing three sports or whatever will stick with you and help you progress.

I know sound, and this is what I'm going to stick to: what I know.

Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

Never rush through the stoke. Nervous or not, take your time, and the result is almost always better.

I just can't stomach playing poorly. More than anything, I hate not getting the most out of my game.

Classical dancing has always been the stepping stone of every dancer's life.

Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.

It's rare for me to sit in a room with my guitar and feel like I can't stop playing, because it just sounds so good.

If I take enough pictures, I'm going to get a good one, and I know not to stop at a bad one.

I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.

I love feeling like I'm inhabiting the body of a ninja, like I could rob a liquor store with my bare hands if I wanted to.

In my day, we had mastered high-intensity conflict, which is why I think we were so successful in Desert Shield, Desert Storm, and then eventually the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

I consider myself a better storyteller than a Dungeon Master.

I'm one of the greatest storytellers ever.