Quotes About Mastery

When you really get technique... there is no strength that will stop you.

I shall become a master in this art only after a great deal of practice.

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul.

Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.

The best way to pursue any discipline is the martial art way.

It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things only is to degenerate into mediocrity and obscurity.

I don't have technique because I never learnt any.

Criticism is easy, art is difficult.

The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.

Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.

Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.

I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.

There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art.

Drawing is the true test of art.

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up!

Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork.

How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy!... He who has not felt the difficulties of his art does nothing that counts.

Good swiping is an art in itself.

He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.

There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.