Quotes About Mastery

I take the horsemanship very seriously and I treat it with the same integrity that one would any of the fine arts.

Remember, you are expressing the techniques and not doing the techniques.

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you're doing becomes art.

Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.

The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.

The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

Mastery is the art of setting your foot on the path.

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

Everybody who cares for his art seeks the essence of his own technique.

Genius is the art of taking pains

Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.

I try to conceal art with art.

In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.

You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.