Masters Quotes

Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature. It is always best to have recourse to nature, which is replete with such abundance of objects, than to the productions of other masters, who learnt everything from her.

I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils.

We are masters of the unsaid words but slaves of those we let slip out.

A year ago our position looked forlorn, and well nigh desperate, to all eyes but our own. Today we may say aloud before an awe-struck world, 'We are still masters of our fate. We still are captain of our souls.

I owe my advancement entirely to the House of Commons, whose servant I am. In my country as in yours public men are proud to be the servants of the State and would be ashamed to be its masters.

Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.

Now we are the masters of our fate, that the task which has been set us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our cause and an unconquerable willpower, salvation will not be denied us.

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

You must make the effort yourself. The Masters only point the way.

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.