Master Works Quotes

#1. Perhaps one of the most essential exercises in learning to paint is the copying of master works in the museums.

Igor Babailov

#2. A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship ... [H]is master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.

Ambrose Bierce

#3. Writing a story requires you to understand how the world works, how characters think, how their emotions drive them to do surprising things, and so on. In other words, as a writer, you have to be more than a stylist. You need to learn to become a master of storytelling.

David Farland

#4. Even in the works of the greatest master, the organic sequence can fail and then a skillful join must be made.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#5. But Istanbul is a city of easy forgettings. Things are written in water over there, except the works of my master, which are written in stone.

Elif Shafak

#6. The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can't play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.

G.K. Chesterton

#7. The writer who possesses the creative gift of fantasy owns something of which he is not always master; something that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself.

Charlotte Bronte

#8. But The Master and Margarita is true to the broader sense of the novel as a freely developing form embodied in the works of Dostoevsky and Gogol, of Swift and Sterne, of Cervantes, Rabelais and Apuleius.

Mikhail Bulgakov

#9. It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#10. I have never concealed the fact that I regarded him as my master ... The quality that had enchanted me in his imaginative works turned out to be the quality of the real universe, the divine, magical, terrifying and ecstatic reality in which we all live.

C.S. Lewis

#11. ...indistinctness is my forte...

J. M. W. Turner

#12. linger among a limited number of master thinkers, and digest their works,

Seneca.

#13. Time spent praying and planning gives you a master plan that works for your home and sets a pattern of order for your life.

Elizabeth George

#14. There is often not so much perfection in works composed of many pieces and made by the hands of various master craftsmen as there is in those works on which but a single individual has worked.

Rene Descartes

#15. I think the biggest mistake you can make in creator owned work is having info-dumps like, "Here's how this world works!" It's just like someone playing dungeon master and boring me with the backstory of their f***ing world. Just bring me into you story and get it cooking.

Rick Remender

#16. Your body is a complete marvel. The more you study its anatomy and how each part works in harmony, the more you will be convinced that you didn't just evolve. You were designed from the beginning by the hand of a Master.

Toni Sorenson

#17. The most precious wealth is wisdom, and the most miserable poverty is stupidity.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#18. We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.

Marvin Minsky

#19. During her life she was in Rivera's shadow. She was framed as the 'Wife of the Master Mural Painter [who] Gleefully Dabbles in Works of Art', as the patronizing headline of the Detroit News proclaimed in February 1933. Today, Rivera is known as Frida's husband.

Gannit Ankori

#20. Digital Masters spend time understanding customer behavior and designing the customer experience from the outside in. A Digital Master figures out what customers do and why, where, and how they do it. The company then works out where and how the experience can be digitally enhanced across channels.

George Westerman

#21. I could have killed Giulietta myself ... but this is better.
"I suppose she is a pure-blooded royal, after all," I say aloud. I give Teren a bitter smile. "Now you know how it feels.

Marie Lu

#22. A warrior of the Light is never in a hurry.
Time works in his favor; he learns to master his impatience and avoids acting without thinking.

Paulo Coelho

#23. You are missing a key element to the story. Maybe the moral of the legend is that we are all carved, created, and formed by a master hand. Maybe we are all works of art.

Amy Harmon

#24. In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#25. Read, read, read. Read everything
trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

William Faulkner

#26. You must linger among a limited number of master thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.

Seneca.

#27. A good job isn't something you go out and find, it's something you discover while you're working.

Jack Ma

#28. It is the Master of Self who is the masterpiece; the life lived is the canvas that reveals the Master's great works.

Jo-Ann L. Tremblay

#29. The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

Anthony Trollope