Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
What is a master but a master student? And if that's true, then there's a responsibility on you to keep getting better and to explore avenues of your profession.
I wouldn't describe myself as a master of anything.
Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.
The Masters is going to be an awesome challenge.
What we want is to become masters in our own house.
It's very easy to learn. And very difficult to master.
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.
You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.