#master

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

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Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature. ↗

— J. G. Holland

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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions. ↗

— Edward Hopper

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Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. ↗

— Horace

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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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