#master

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

— Edgar Degas

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The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now. ↗

— Barbara Deming

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The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#effect #make #masterpieces #me #otherwise

I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying. ↗

— James Galway

#flute #get #get a real #having #i

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master. ↗

— Milton Glaser

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If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives. ↗

— Danny Glover

#children #creative #enhance #how #intelligent

It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience. ↗

— D. W. Griffith

#about #actor #actress #art #audience

Part of me always longed to do just one more film and see what Luke would be like now that he's on the level of Obi-Wan Kenobi, the student having become the master. But it was not meant to be. ↗

— Mark Hamill

#become #film #having #just #just one

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college. ↗

— Tony Hillerman

#arts #back #bank #bank robbery #being

If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague. ↗

— Wilhelm Keitel

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