Great Masters Quotes

#1. Saints and sages are still alive. Great masters are still operating. It is up to you to find where they are.

Krishnananda Saraswati

#2. All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.

Oscar Wilde

#4. Mozart is the most inaccessible of the great masters.

Artur Schnabel

#5. If a painting of mine suits me, it is right. If it does not please me, I care not if all the great masters should approve it or the dealers buy it. They would be wrong.

Arshile Gorky

#6. I think of great masters, like [Alfred] Hitchcock, for example, who works absolutely within this sensational realm. You feel like you can always tell what temperature a room is in a Hitchcock film because the people feel alive, they don't feel like they're just being filmed on a stage.

Tilda Swinton

#7. All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better the simpler it is, and the rich, far-wandering, many-imaged life of the half-seen world beyond it

W.B.Yeats

#8. Morphy gained most of his wins by playing directly and simply, and it is simple and logical method that constitutes the true brilliance of his play, if it is considered from the viewpoint of the great masters.

Jose Raul Capablanca

#9. In my dreams of Heaven, I always see the great Masters gathered in a huge hall in which they all reside. Only Mozart has his own suite.

Victor Borge

#10. The formal innovations of the great masters always have a certain discreetness about them; such is true perfection; only among the small masters does novelty seek to call attention to itself.

Milan Kundera

#11. ... but I believe the divine ones will send other great masters to preach the truth to mankind, and that mankind will always receive them with the cross and the fire and the stones

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#12. I am very much inspired by the great masters of entertainment: Bob Hope, George Burns, Jimmy Durante - who never thought about retiring. When people ask me if I plan to retire, I say, "Retire to what? I am doing what I love best right now!"

Tony Bennett

#13. No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

Edgar Degas

#14. Children, we must cultivate reverence towards all great masters, monks and gurus.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#15. To find the best moves great Masters, with years of experience, engage in laborious research, and the moves thus found are blindly repeated by amateurs without any attempt to fathom their real meaning and how and why they stand in their context.

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

#16. The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity.

Samuel Johnson

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

Orhan Pamuk

#18. The Jews are the scum of the earth, but they are also great masters in lying.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#19. Not only did she [Marilyn Monroe] master her own image, create it and ultimately control it, she was the subject of many of the great masters of photography of the 20th century.

Gail Levin

#20. The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.

Joseph Addison

#21. I'm getting more and more into Chinese art and Japanese, some of those scroll paintings are amazing. You follow the change of the seasons. It's really something. These guys were great masters and of course the use of space.

Robert Barry

#22. To all players I can recommend the following: simplicity and economy. These are the characteristics of the opening systems of many great masters ... A solid opening repertoire fosters self-confidence.

Lajos Portisch

#23. I'm a fan of musicals from great masters, and I was able to have an opportunity to express myself in musical numbers with Glee.

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

#24. Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do us most good, than to have always in one's mind lines and expressions of the great masters, and to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry.

Matthew Arnold

#25. Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism ... the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.

Ezra Pound

#26. I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that's enough.

Claude Monet

#27. The aggregate energy of all the great masters of the past and those of the present communicates the greatest possibilities of art. It is from this position that the artist attains colossal strength.

Jorg Immendorff

#28. On golfer Rory McIlroy's collapse in the final round of the 2011 Masters: We had hoped to compare the young Northern Irishman to the great Masters champions but instead had to reach for the compendium of great golfing train wrecks.

Matt Dickinson

#29. Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own.

Alan Cohen

#30. Great masters merit emulation, not worship.

Alan Cohen

#31. When you have practiced drawing for a while ... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find done by the hand of great masters.

Cennino Cennini

#32. If not for the pose, the arms crossed over her chest as she surveyed the dark sea churning around her, she might have been one of the great masters' statues brought to life. And in a thousand different ways, she was just as entirely out of his reach.

Alexandra Bracken

#33. If you look at a painting that you love by one of the great masters, every time you go back to it, you see something different - a different attitude or brushstroke. 'Hamlet' is like an entire gallery of old masters.

Rory Kinnear

#34. Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.

Ernst Haas

#35. 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.

Igor Babailov

#36. If the mind wants to comprehend reality, it will have to come out of the past and the future. But coming out of the past and the future, it is no longer the mind at all. Hence the insistence of all the great masters of the world that the door to reality is no-mind.

Rajneesh

#37. Historic accounts of the lives of great masters have told of rainbows and other special signs, like the rain of flowers, and of special clouds that appeared, witnessed by people on very special occasions and at auspicious events.

Jamgon Kongtrul

#38. It is compassion, then, that is the best protection; it is also, as the great masters of the past have always known, the source of all healing.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#39. Even an expert has room to improve, grow and learn a little more. All the great masters teach this. For this reason, never allow an expert's 'opinion' to limit you in any way, whether it is with your intellect, accomplishments or illness and disease

Gary Hopkins

#40. I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.

Suzi Quatro

#41. Saints and sages are still alive. Great masters are still operating. It is up to you to find where they are.

Krishnananda Saraswati

#42. All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#43. Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.

Oscar Wilde

#44. Mozart is the most inaccessible of the great masters.

Artur Schnabel

#45. If a painting of mine suits me, it is right. If it does not please me, I care not if all the great masters should approve it or the dealers buy it. They would be wrong.

Arshile Gorky

#46. We hear wonderful stories about some masters who can walk on water and do all kinds of great things. But the real power of the teacher is to transmit power and knowledge directly to an individual.

Frederick Lenz

#47. I think of great masters, like [Alfred] Hitchcock, for example, who works absolutely within this sensational realm. You feel like you can always tell what temperature a room is in a Hitchcock film because the people feel alive, they don't feel like they're just being filmed on a stage.

Tilda Swinton

#48. There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters.

Richard Linklater

#49. I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

Sylvester Stallone

#50. And you realize that it was not those great minds and not those old masters which kept you alive for decades but that it was this one single person whom you loved more than anyone else.

Thomas Bernhard

#51. I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defence of the country can distinguish a mortar from a motor; a gun from a howitzer; a guerrilla from a gorilla, although a great many resemble the latter.

Sam Manekshaw

#52. Don't pretend to be a great master and don't try to show off your strength.

Gichin Funakoshi

#53. All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better the simpler it is, and the rich, far-wandering, many-imaged life of the half-seen world beyond it

W.B.Yeats

#54. The Masters is where I won my first major, and I view this tournament with great respect. After a long and necessary time away from the game, I feel like I'm ready to start my season at Augusta.

Tiger Woods

#55. To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.

Marcus Aurelius

#56. MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the Most Eminent Grand Masters, Grand Chancellors, Great Incohonees and Imperial Potentates of the ancient and honorable orders of republican America.

Ambrose Bierce

#57. Morphy gained most of his wins by playing directly and simply, and it is simple and logical method that constitutes the true brilliance of his play, if it is considered from the viewpoint of the great masters.

Jose Raul Capablanca

#58. In my dreams of Heaven, I always see the great Masters gathered in a huge hall in which they all reside. Only Mozart has his own suite.

Victor Borge

#59. In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in Shakespeare and other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth, even though it be covertly, and by snatches.

Herman Melville

#60. Though most people love to look at the games of the great attacking masters, some of the most successful players in history have been the quiet positional players. They slowly grind you down by taking away your space, tying up your pieces, and leaving you with virtually nothing to do!

Yasser Seirawan

#61. And yet the quality of the life is good. All human potentialities are in it. Given proper conditions, it could live through the centuries, and great men, heroes and masters, spring from it and make the world better by having lived.

Jack London

#62. The formal innovations of the great masters always have a certain discreetness about them; such is true perfection; only among the small masters does novelty seek to call attention to itself.

Milan Kundera

#63. Clive Shepherd created a great resource called, "The 60 Minute Masters," which

Carolyn Bean

#64. Warriors like Alexander the Great seek sovereignty over the soil; masters like Sri Yukteswar win a farther dominion - in men's souls. It

Paramahansa Yogananda

#65. ... but I believe the divine ones will send other great masters to preach the truth to mankind, and that mankind will always receive them with the cross and the fire and the stones

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#66. Don't wish for "secrets" of the masters, either. There are none worth fooling with. They had no special mediums or paints, nor special brushes that made their work great.

Richard Schmid

#67. I am very much inspired by the great masters of entertainment: Bob Hope, George Burns, Jimmy Durante - who never thought about retiring. When people ask me if I plan to retire, I say, "Retire to what? I am doing what I love best right now!"

Tony Bennett

#68. He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

Samuel Johnson

#69. No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

Edgar Degas

#70. Don't compare me with Jesus. He is a great master, a great master ...

Dalai Lama

#71. Of course, it is well to go abroad and see the works of the old masters, but Americans ... must strike out for themselves, and only by doing this will we create a great and distinctly American art.

Thomas Eakins

#72. Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.

Nikolai Gogol

#73. Children, we must cultivate reverence towards all great masters, monks and gurus.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#74. To find the best moves great Masters, with years of experience, engage in laborious research, and the moves thus found are blindly repeated by amateurs without any attempt to fathom their real meaning and how and why they stand in their context.

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

#75. If there is anything that gives kingliness to the soul, it is patience. What was the secret of the masters who have accomplished great things, who have inspired many and who have helped many souls? Their secret was patience.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#76. It is something that artists do all the time unconsciously, working in the style of someone they consider a great master. I just wanted to make that relationship literal.

Sherrie Levine

#77. The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity.

Samuel Johnson

#78. Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

Moliere

#79. Money is a great slave but a horrible master.

Daymond John

#80. How much more must this be so in my own case for I am conscious not only of the great names and achievements of those who have preceded me, but also of the living presence of many of my masters and teachers.

Cecil Frank Powell

#81. We fill our mental strong-room with these great minds and old masters and resort to them at the crucial moment in our lives;

Thomas Bernhard

#82. Hans Walter Wolff has suggested that the Sabbath is the great equalizer, for that day is a foretaste of the kingdom when all-great and small-are reckoned to be exactly equal .2' All-masters and slaves-are to engage in this most godlike activity of being at peace.

Walter Brueggemann

#83. Intercession remains the unrivaled master in fulfilling the Great Commission.

David Shibley

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

Orhan Pamuk

#85. Every great master will find it useful to have his own theory on the openings, which only he himself knows, a theory which is closely linked with plans for the middle game.

Mikhail Botvinnik

#86. The Jews are the scum of the earth, but they are also great masters in lying.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#87. To know what we think, to be masters of our own meaning, will make a solid foundation for great and weighty thought.

Charles Sanders Peirce

#88. Not only did she [Marilyn Monroe] master her own image, create it and ultimately control it, she was the subject of many of the great masters of photography of the 20th century.

Gail Levin

#89. He who masters the small becomes the rightful possessor of the great.

James Allen

#90. Any picture firmly held in any mind, in any form, is bound to come forth. That is the great, unchanging universal law that, when we cooperate with it intelligently, makes us absolute masters of the conditions and situations in our lives.

Roger McDonald

#91. Being a siddha master is indeed a great accomplishment, but it is not the same as being enlightened. People confuse siddha masters, who have the power to perform miracles, with enlightened masters who can enter into samadhi.

Frederick Lenz

#92. Buddha is the crown jewel of the Indian nation which accepts all ways of worship of all religions. This quality of Hinduism in India was a product of many great spiritual masters chief among them was Buddha. And this is what sustains the secular character of India.

Narendra Modi

#93. The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in their handling of endgames. The present World Champion has not the strength of the other three as an endgame player, and is therefore inferior to them.

Jose Raul Capablanca

#94. To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.

Vincent Van Gogh

#95. No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker.

Jose Raul Capablanca

#96. Remember, technology is a great servant, but a terrible master.

Stephen Covey

#97. The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.

Joseph Addison

#98. Whomsoever you follow, howsoever great, see to it that you follow the spirit of the master and not imitate him mechanically.

Mahatma Gandhi

#99. I'm getting more and more into Chinese art and Japanese, some of those scroll paintings are amazing. You follow the change of the seasons. It's really something. These guys were great masters and of course the use of space.

Robert Barry

#100. Masters of the first rank are recognized by the fact that in matters great and small they know how to find an end perfectly, be it the end of a melody or a thought.

Friedrich Nietzsche