Quotes About Mastery

I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.

The longer you've been acting, normally, the better you are at it. As a musician, it doesn't work like that.

It's always great to work with masters, people who are really, truly good at what they do.

If you work with amazing actors, you've got a master class happening in front of you. But [also] it's just acting at the end of the day.

Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.

Very rarely do I work on mechanics now. I tend to solve problems within the music itself.

Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.

I always considered Ray Harryhausen's work so fine that it was way out of my league: in terms of realism and naturalism, in terms of animal movement.

The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.

I think you should do rehearsal and work at it, but when the camera rolls, you should be ready. Try to make it good the first time.

All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time.

Working for incredible talents like Balenciaga and Antonio Castillo, I learned about the immense skill and creativity involved in couture work.

Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.

Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the beginners from experienced artists.

Becoming a superstar takes about 10,000 hours of hard work.

By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

Chefs work with food, artists with oil paint, programmers with code.

You cannot become a master until you actually take the leap, do the work, make several thousand mistakes, and live to tell about it.

Perfection can never be attained by work.

A man's perfection is his work.

If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.

My work knocks people out; you've not seen the best of me yet.

Don't impose yourself until you really know the work throroughly.