Artist Quote by Tony Saavedra

When you see me do a five-minute thing, there's been about two years of preparation behind that. You know, I find that's what it…

— David Copperfield

You don't have to compose a masterpiece every time, but I think the challenge of art is always searching for something different, searching for…

— Ludovico Einaudi

I think it takes an unbelievable amount of hours for anybody to master their craft.

— Saint Jhn

Many of my sculptures take a long time to make.

— Charles Ray

Usually, about two years of work go into each illusion, whether it's big or small. Two years of work on each five-minute piece.

— David Copperfield

Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The…

— Maya Angelou

A lot of artists make art for five years, some artists make art for ten years, a few make art for fifteen: very few…

— Doseone

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it…

— George Kennedy

It takes forever to make a film. It's a gargantuan thing of untold effort.

— Francesca Gregorini

Now is the canvas on which all masterpieces are made.

— Devin Waugh

I never had the sense of myself as an accomplished artist, and I always had to work three times as hard as anyone else…

— Toshiko Takaezu

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

— Virginia Woolf