Quotes of Masterpiece - somelinesforyou

“ By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece. ”

- G. K. Chesterton

“ Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces. ”

- Anatole France

“ The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with a purpose. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. ”

- Jean Cocteau

“ The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette. ”

- Henry S. Haskins

“ The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence. ”

- Cyril Connolly

“ Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art — an individual masterpiece. ”

- Denis Waitley

“ We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames. ”

- Rudolf Bing

“ The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence. ”

- Cyril Connolly

“ To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved. ”

- Andre Malraux

“ The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. ”

- Leonardo da Vinci

“ Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius. ”

- Edward O. Wilson

“ Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing. ”

- John Donne

“ Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. ”

- Marcel Proust

“ When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. ”

- John Ruskin

“ A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ The family is one of nature's masterpieces. ”

- George Santayana

“ Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now. ”

- Frank Lloyd Wright

“ The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, the amphitheatres, for wild beasts to fight in. ”

- Voltaire

“ A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man. ”

- Edmond and Jules De Goncourt

“ A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ 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

“ You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients. ”

- Julia Child

“ Great imaginations are apt to work from hints and suggestions and a single moment of emotion is sometimes sufficient to create a masterpiece. ”

- Margaret Sackville

“ I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk. ”

- Anthony Robbins

“ I never was an opera fan — about twenty-five musically supreme masterpieces in this curious medium apart. ”

- Hans Keller

“ Let each day be your masterpiece. ”

- Unknown

“ Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece. ”

- Nadia Boulanger
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