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“The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.”

Giving Different Secret Advice Masters

Book:The private Degas

Source: The private Degas

“I take back all I ever said about the Old Masters. They give great lessons.”

Giving Said Masters Lessons

Author:Howard Pyle

“O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago; The schoolmaster over the land is advancing, Then why is the master of dancing so slow? It is such a bore to be always caught tripping In dull uniformity year after year; Invent something new, and you'll set me a skipping: I want a new figure to dance with my Dear!”

Want Giving Years I Can Land Figures Taught Masters Goes On Ten Seasons Give Me Dancing Dear Caught Dull Something New Bores Advancing Uniformity Tripping

Author:Thomas Haynes Bayly

“No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art may give you an insight to Picasso, but, after all, Picasso was there first.”

Giving Firsts May Art Might Interesting Masters Insight Good Writers

Book:Hockney on photography: conversations with Paul Joyce

Source: Hockney on photography: conversations with Paul Joyce

“Titian, Tintoretto, and Paul Veronese absolutely enchanted me, for they took away all sense of subject... It was the poetry of color which I felt, procreative in its nature, giving birth to a thousand things which the eye cannot see, and distinct from their cause.”

Giving Eye Felt Causes Subjects Color Masters Birth Thousand Enchanted Giving Birth

Author:Washington Allston

“He who chooses to be a master never does 'just enough' to get by - nor does he cut corners or attempt to cheat the system. He who chooses mastery lives his life asking, 'How can I do more, give more, be more, and thereby accelerate the achievement of my ultimate destiny?”

Giving Doe Enough Destiny Cutting Masters Achievement Ultimate Asking Corners Mastery Cheat Accelerate

Author:James Arthur Ray

“This art of conservation is strength, and makes the masterpiece a masterpiece. Otherwise, the man who simply brought all the different colors obtainable, and squeezed them out upon the canvas to give it 'full force,' would be the greatest master, instead of being merely extravagant.”

Men Giving Art Different Would Be Force Color He Man Masters Canvas Conservation Masterpiece Being Me Extravagant Different Colors

Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

“A true master gives all his knowledge. But only when the student is ready.”

Giving Students Ready Masters Mma

Author:Georges St-Pierre

“A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not, of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks, or in any way really raise them above the servants they employ, who are quite aware of this fact, and that the possession of wealth is literally the only superiority their employers have over them.”

Source: Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters, Forming a Sequel to Record of a Girlhood, and Records of Later Life

“The genius of Freemasonry is not our Masonic buildings and temples or the trappings of our organizations. It is not our great charities or community activities. It is not our beautiful rituals or their teachings! It is the 'practice of Freemasonry' by the Freemasons. Yet we cannot practice that which we do not know or understand. Thus Masonic education is the foundation for our Fraternity. Brother Carl H. Claudy in The Master's Book says, '.. one thing and only one thing a Masonic Lodge can give its members which they can get nowhere else in the world. That one thing is Masonry.”