Mastery Quotes

"I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style."

"With every year of playing, you want to relax one more muscle. Why? Because the more tense you are, the less you can hear."

"There is nothing quite as exciting as watching a master at work."

"If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all."

Michelangelo

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."

"If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others."

Tryon Edwards

"Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good."

Malcolm Gladwell

"A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else."

George Savile

“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”

"Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art."

Frederic Chopin

"Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that and just play."

Charlie Parker

"It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play."

Dizzy Gillespie

“If fear is cultivated it will become stronger; if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.”

John Paul Jones

“We may call that art true art which does not seem to be art.”

Baldassare Castiglione

“Marketing takes a day to learn. Unfortunately it takes a lifetime to master.”

Philip Kotler

“He who wishes to become a master of colour must see, feel, and experience each individual colour in its many endless combinations with all other colours.”

Johannes Itten

“Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.”

Edgar Degas

“When I am a hundred and ten, everything I do, be it a dot or a line, will be alive.”

Katsushika Hokusai

“Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.”

Ludwig van Beethoven

“Simplicity is the final achievement.”

Frédéric Chopin

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

Pablo Picasso

“If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.”

Michelangelo