Quotes About Mastery

The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow - suggests no effort - and is finished from its beginning.

Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.)

I consider my work great, as I am a great artist.

Never show unfinished work.

Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew.

The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a painter to canvas. I found that I was master of the elements, that I could work miracles.

You can't be at the same time a spiritual master and someone who is always angry. It doesn't work.

No matter how humble your work may seem, do it in the spirit of an artist, of a master. In this way you lift it out of commonness and rob it of what would otherwise be drudgery.

To watch a master work at anything is a privilege.

Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

A man perfects himself by working.

There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work.

Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.

Stop trying to be different. Just do what you are good at, and work really hard. You have to work hard to be chaos.

My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory.

There is no work of art that is without short cuts.

I love to work with people who are great at what they do.

What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work.

There's an intuition learned through our work. Teaching others doesn't mean they can just go out and replicate it.

But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you, is a future you.

In a lot of ways, work was my graduate school.

If you just work on your craft hard, that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.

The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.

The artist needs no religion beyond his work.