Art Quote by Paul Gauguin

“The best master is the one who raises many more masters and much more important than this, who creates masters even much better than…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“To write only according to the rules laid down by masterpieces signifies that one is not a master but a pupil.”

— David Shields

“The formal innovations of the great masters always have a certain discreetness about them; such is true perfection; only among the small masters does…

— Milan Kundera

All masters want to appear more brilliant than other people.

— Robert Greene

“To study one good master till you understand him will teach you more than a superficial acquaintance with a thousand: power of criticism does…

— John Ruskin

“Only a few people are interested in what you have to say, but that's all right. You don't tell the quality of a master…

— Richard Bach

“The public for which masterpieces are intended is not on this earth.”

— Thornton Wilder

“Recognizing masterpieces is the job of the critic, not writing competent reviews of the unimportant.”

— Jack Green

“Even when they are geniuses in spite of it, their masterpieces are invariably warped.”

— Christopher Isherwood

Even without comparing ourselves to the world's greatest, we set such high standards for ourselves that neither we nor anyone else could ever meet…

— George Leonard

“I don’t trust masters who can’t be down-to-earth. For me they’re like those eccentric poets who can’t write like everybody else. I accept that…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Every masterpiece grows from the seed of imagination.”

— R.S. Johnson