Quotes About Mastery

It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people.

...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art.

The poet who does not revere his art, and believe in its sovereignty, is not born to wear the purple.

I have a strong art-history background.

Beerbohm was a genius of the purest kind. He stands at the summit of his art.

I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception.

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

We try not to encourage demonstrations of his mastery of the gaseous arts.

Headline writing is an art form.

How long did it take me to delimit this art? Twenty years! ... It was a laborious process, but a methodical and rational one; gradually the hesitations were ironed out, but not all of a sudden.

There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual.

Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.

The great artist takes what he needs.

There are times when quantity is at least as important as quality in learning an art.

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

I've always been huge into martial arts.

If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they "artialize" nature.

When you're doing martial arts, you feel like you can master certain skills and be so much more in control of who you are, so that really appealed to me.

I'm not the greatest driver. I don't know if I'll ever master the art.

I'm a martial arts buff, so anything martial arts.

It is not easy to recover an art when once lost.

It is art to conceal art. -Ars est celare artem

Art lies in concealing art.