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title: "29 Great Masters Quotes by 27 authors"
description: "Browse 29 Great Masters quotes by 27 authors. Discover the best Great Masters sayings and thoughts."
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> [Mozart is the most inaccessible of the great masters.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/artur-schnabel/mozart-is-the-most-inaccessible-of-the-great-masters/)

[Artur Schnabel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/artur-schnabel/)

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> [Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernst-haas/refine-your-senses-through-the-great-masters-of-music-painting-and/)

[Ernst Haas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernst-haas/)

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> [Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/only-the-great-masters-of-style-ever-succeed-in-being-obscure/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [Great masters merit emulation, not worship.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-cohen/great-masters-merit-emulation-not-worship/)

[Alan Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-cohen/)

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> [“I conn'd old times, I sat studying at the feet of the great masters, Now if eligible O that the great masters…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/i-conn-d-old-times-i-sat-studying-at-the-feet-of-the-great-masters/)

[Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/)

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> [Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-cohen/great-masters-neither-want-nor-need-your-worship-your-greatest-gift/)

[Alan Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-cohen/)

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> [No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-degas/no-art-is-less-spontaneous-than-mine-what-i-do-is-the-result-of/)

[Edgar Degas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-degas/)

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> [Saints and sages are still alive. Great masters are still operating. It is up to you to find where they are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/krishnananda-saraswati/saints-and-sages-are-still-alive-great-masters-are-still-operating-it/)

[Krishnananda Saraswati](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/krishnananda-saraswati/)

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> [There are certainly loads of players that I admire; I try to learn from all of the great masters both of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/magnus-carlsen/there-are-certainly-loads-of-players-that-i-admire-i-try-to-learn/)

[Magnus Carlsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/magnus-carlsen/)

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> [When you have practiced drawing for a while... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cennino-cennini/when-you-have-practiced-drawing-for-a-while-take-pains-and-pleasure/)

[Cennino Cennini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cennino-cennini/)

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> [It is compassion, then, that is the best protection; it is also, as the great masters of the past have always known,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sogyal-rinpoche/it-is-compassion-then-that-is-the-best-protection-it-is-also-as-the/)

[Sogyal Rinpoche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sogyal-rinpoche/)

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> [The Worlds was great, Masters was great, but that was sort of mission accomplished with the Triple Crown.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-robertson/the-worlds-was-great-masters-was-great-but-that-was-sort-of-mission/)

[Neil Robertson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-robertson/)

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> [“The formal innovations of the great masters always have a certain discreetness about them; such is true perfection; only among the small…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/the-formal-innovations-of-the-great-masters-always-have-a-certain/)

[Milan Kundera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milan-kundera/)

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> [No one can bar me from joyfully proceeding on what the great masters have left us; after all, to rediscover everything again,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-mendelssohn/no-one-can-bar-me-from-joyfully-proceeding-on-what-the-great-masters/)

[Felix Mendelssohn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felix-mendelssohn/)

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> [ I think of great masters, like \[Alfred\] Hitchcock, for example, who works absolutely within this sensational realm. You feel like you can… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tilda-swinton/i-think-of-great-masters-like-alfred-hitchcock-for-example-who-works/)

[Tilda Swinton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tilda-swinton/)

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> [To all players I can recommend the following: simplicity and economy. These are the characteristics of the opening systems of many great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lajos-portisch/to-all-players-i-can-recommend-the-following-simplicity-and-economy/)

[Lajos Portisch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lajos-portisch/)

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> [All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/all-great-masters-are-chiefly-distinguished-by-the-power-of-adding-a/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The aggregate energy of all the great masters of the past and those of the present communicates the greatest possibilities of art.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorg-immendorff/the-aggregate-energy-of-all-the-great-masters-of-the-past-and-those/)

[Jorg Immendorff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorg-immendorff/)

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> [ I'll take a \[Pavel\] Chekhov comparison any day! He's of course one of the great masters at the short story form, and… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-weinstein/i-ll-take-a-pavel-chekhov-comparison-any-day-he-s-of-course-one-of/)

[Alexander Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-weinstein/)

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> [ Not only did she \[Marilyn Monroe\] master her own image, create it and ultimately control it, she was the subject of many… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gail-levin/not-only-did-she-marilyn-monroe-master-her-own-image-create-it-and/)

[Gail Levin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gail-levin/)

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> [“What a sad paradox, though Amalfitano. Now even bookish pharmacists are afraid to take on the great, imperfect, torrential works, books that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/what-a-sad-paradox-though-amalfitano-now-even-bookish-pharmacists-are/)

[Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/)

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> [“Part of the reason why a certain skill often seems so effortless for great masters is not just because they’ve mastered the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ryan-holiday/part-of-the-reason-why-a-certain-skill-often-seems-so-effortless-for/)

[Ryan Holiday](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ryan-holiday/)

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> [“He chose The Metamorphosis over The Trial, he chose Bartleby over Moby-Dick, he chose A Simple Heart over Bouvard and Pecuchet, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/he-chose-the-metamorphosis-over-the-trial-he-chose-bartleby-over-moby/)

[Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/)

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> [All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orhan-pamuk/all-great-masters-in-their-work-seek-that-profound-void-within-color/)

[Orhan Pamuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orhan-pamuk/)

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> [In my dreams of Heaven, I always see the great Masters gathered in a huge hall in which they all reside. Only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-borge/in-my-dreams-of-heaven-i-always-see-the-great-masters-gathered-in-a/)

[Victor Borge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-borge/)

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> [All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/all-the-great-masters-have-understood-that-there-cannot-be-great-art/)

[William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/)

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> [Morphy gained most of his wins by playing directly and simply, and it is simple and logical method that constitutes the true…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jose-raul-capablanca/morphy-gained-most-of-his-wins-by-playing-directly-and-simply-and-it/)

[Jose Raul Capablanca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jose-raul-capablanca/)

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> [Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/indeed-there-can-be-no-more-useful-help-for-discovering-what-poetry/)

[Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-arnold/)

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> [It's important to see the work of as many directors as possible but you must not become self-conscious. You have to accept…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-ivory/it-s-important-to-see-the-work-of-as-many-directors-as-possible-but/)

[James Ivory](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-ivory/)

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