It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty; they haven't learned everything and they know it.
To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.
It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters.
When caricaturist, Al Hirschfeld, did a drawing of a celebrity, it often looked more like the person than the person did. That's our goal in animation.
If ever a painter wrought a miracle of illusion with brush and pigment that painter was Velazquez in his Las Meninas, at the Prado in Madrid.
When we think of Leonardo da Vinci, the last thing that comes to mind is the nationality of the artist. The great masters belong to the world.
Learn from the greats, and expose yourself to better work.
I was created by the all powerful God to fill the universe with my masterpieces.
Many great works of art have only form, the sculpture of the thing. Color as used to signify realization by men like Titian and Rembrandt, gives greater life and tactile experience to the work.
In the hands of a master, light and shade is one of the great qualities of art.
Michelangelo's contemporaries thought him the greatest artist who ever lived and called him 'divine.' His reputation as sculptor, architect, painter and draughtsman has not subsequently been surpassed, and who is to say his contemporaries were wrong?
One night in the early sixties I passed something on the Long Island Expressway just before the Queens tunnel that I must have seen for years. The billboard advertising cigars, Dutch Masters. I realized it was sort of perfect. It's weird isn't it? You're looking at Rembrandt - in neon! It was too much, it was irresistible.
I began to practise day and night, and the more I did, the more I was overwhelmed by the tremendous achievement of that great family of black American musicians I was beginning to know closely.
Degas is a master of creating compositions that don't look composed.
Van Gogh is the best example of how a person can be on the right track, propelled by gut feeling and some kind of strange obsessive stubborn conviction, that no one seems to understand.
Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you; either you run the business or the business runs you.
Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Abraham Lincoln once said, 'Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.'
My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.
Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.
Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.
We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.
It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.
It is with our Passions, as it is with Fire and Water, they are 'Good Servants,' but 'Bad Masters.'
Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.
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