Top 100 A Masterpiece Quotes
#1. The Phantom Menace is not a masterpiece, but it's an example of how imagination, craftsmanship, and technological bravura can fashion superior entertainment out of something that is far from flawless.
James Berardinelli
#2. The goal of a passionate artist is to try and make a masterpiece each and every time, yet be wise enough to know you will fall short.
Donato Giancola
#3. You are a painter of success. Paint your life into a masterpiece of excellence.
Mark LaMoure
#4. If I owned a Rembrandt and it had some dull colors, I don't think I'd go put reds and yellows in there just to brighten it up. I feel the same way about old golf courses. When you have a masterpiece, I sure wouldn't tinker with it.
Ray Floyd
#5. Taste for things of the past evolves, doesn't it? What was a masterpiece a hundred years ago is no longer so today.
Alberto Giacometti
#6. Alexander von Humboldt's wide-ranging Views of Nature is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century natural history, at once science and art. Mark W. Person's stunning new translation makes the wonders of this classic accessible to the English-language world of the present.
Daniel Walker Howe
#8. Your mind is the canvas upon which you are the artist. What will you paint on your canvas today? Will you draw a stick figure or create a masterpiece ... ?
James A. Murphy
#9. He found himself weeping.
Not for the future or for the emperor. These were the tears of a man who saw before himself a masterpiece. True art was more than beauty; it was more than technique. It was not just imitation.
It was boldness, it was contrast, it was subtlety.
Brandon Sanderson
#10. A masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.
Arlene Croce
#12. Do you think it's ready?" I [Silenus, The Poet] asked.
"It's perfect ... a masterpiece."
"Do you think it'll sell?" I asked.
"No fucking way.
Dan Simmons
#13. An innings of neurotic violence, of eccentric watchfulness, of brainless impetuosity and incontinent savagery - it was an extraordinary innings, a masterpiece and it secured the Ashes for England [on Pietersen's Ashes winning innings, 2005
Simon Barnes
#14. I was an afterthought, five thousand years later. A mistake, because Ciana was gone. I was the dissonant note on the end of a masterpiece symphony. I was the brushstroke that ruined the painting.
Jodi Meadows
#15. Bodybuilding is an art, your body is the canvas, weights are your brush and nutrition is your paint. We all have the ability to turn a self portrait into a masterpiece.
Kai Greene
#17. Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.
Honore De Balzac
#18. "Lost in Translation" by Sofia Coppola. It's a masterpiece. I laughed a lot but was also overwhelmed by the story - a rare combination.
Emmanuelle Bercot
#19. The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece ... We're the block of marble and God is the sculptor, and the chisel is ... everything.
Peter Kreeft
#20. The female body is a masterpiece. Everyone likes to look at the female body, especially in dynamic, athletic sport.
Natalie Cook
#21. If life is a blank canvas and all people are artists, the big challenge we all face may be expressed this way: Will we ultimately produce something approaching a masterpiece, an acceptable but not particularly memorable work of art, or a creation that wouldn't even be purchased at a yard sale?
Mardy Grothe
#23. This music, transmitted by loud-speakers, made a masterpiece appear like an amateurish attempt at composition by nimcompoop
Paul Hindemith
#24. Dream masters create a masterpiece of life; they control the dream by making choices.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#25. The day wasn't exactly my own
since I checked
and found it on a public calendar.
Tripping over many pairs of legs
as I walked down the park
I also learned my lust
was not so rare a masterpiece.
Leonard Cohen
#28. Don't hire a master to paint you a masterpiece and then assign a roomful of schoolboy artists to look over his shoulder and make suggestions.
Robert Townsend
#29. Don't be afraid of what's on the inside. I can make a masterpiece with the insides.
Tara Sue Me
#30. I don't sleep with a violin in my bed, but there is something very magical about the instrument. You open up the case; it's a masterpiece, it's gorgeous, the varnish is still there from 300 years ago. People who know violins, they look at it and it's almost like a face.
Joshua Bell
#31. And he saw the studio he was about to abandon for his bed as it might have appeared in a documentary film about himself that would reveal to a curious world how a masterpiece was born.
Ian McEwan
#32. Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece. - Nadia Boulanger
David Allen
#33. In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece
Kai Greene
#34. 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.
Tony Robbins
#36. Today is the first day and last day of your life ... try to make every day a masterpiece.
Mark Batterson
#37. You can feel righteous fury in every frame of The Magdalene Sisters. The movie is both a masterpiece and a holy hell: Watching it, you feel you're being punished for a crime you didn't commit. Which puts you, come to think of it, in the same frame of mind as those poor Magdalene girls.
David Edelstein
#38. Each sunrise is a masterpiece, but few appreciate it; therefore, don't be disheartened when people disregard your kindness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#39. One of my favorite films is 'Big Fish,' which I think is a masterpiece.
George Clooney
#41. Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do
Brian Tracy
#42. You were created as a masterpiece and you are one of God's expressions of beauty. Short, tall, thin, thick, freckles, big eyes, small ones ... it doesn't matter.
Dannah Gresh
#43. 'Georgia' is very personal to me. 'Anniversary Party' was great. 'Anomalisa' is also another one that, particularly, is in my heart and will be forever. I do think it's a masterpiece; I really do.
Jennifer Jason Leigh
#44. Yes, translation is by definition an inadequate substitute for being able to read a masterpiece in the original.
Terry Teachout
#45. My work is the art I paint on the canvas of my life. Hopefully I'm creating a masterpiece.
L.R.W. Lee
#46. Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece.
Steve Buscemi
#47. My brother Max made my desk. It's a masterpiece, like a piano. Everybody who comes in my office loves my desk.
Reem Acra
#48. This art of conservation is strength, and makes the masterpiece a masterpiece. Otherwise, the man who simply brought all the different colors obtainable, and squeezed them out upon the canvas to give it 'full force,' would be the greatest master, instead of being merely extravagant.
John F. Carlson
#49. A blank page is no empty space. It is brimming with potential ... It is a masterpiece in waiting
yours.
A.A. Patawaran
#50. All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of a masterpiece.
Eddie Murphy
#51. There is a movie called Fargo playing right now. It is a masterpiece. Go see it. If you, under any circumstances, see Little Indian, Big City, I will never let you read one of my reviews again.
Roger Ebert
#52. It is said that in every Persian carpet there is an error created by the weaver to avoid making a mockery of the belief that only Allah is perfect. Writing a novel is the quest for a perfection every writer knows can never be achieved, but is obliged to Set out to write a masterpiece.
Chloe Thurlow
#53. Every living thing is a masterpiece, written by nature and edited by evolution.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#54. It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
Dwight L. Moody
#55. Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity?
E. O. Wilson
#56. 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
#57. A masterpiece produced by an indecipherable cocktail of races, Kolovas-Jones's skin was
Robert Galbraith
#58. Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
Robert Henri
#59. Make your life a masterpiece: Step beyond the demands of the moment and begin right now to design and live the life you deserve.
Tony Robbins
#60. What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress? Imagine that you are a masterpiece unfolding each second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath.
Thomas Crum
#61. He was the picture of innocence and a masterpiece of temptation.
Wendy Beck
#62. A masterpiece ... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
Gertrude Stein
#63. Susan Bordo's Unbearable Weight is a masterpiece of complex an nuanced thinking not only about a significant problem that faces women but about our culture. A very valuable book.
Susan Griffin
#64. You are a miracle, you are a light. You are not made of our weaknesses but of your strengths. You are a masterpiece made by The Master. Don't see yourself less!
Kemi Sogunle
#65. When will we learn that childhood is in a great sense not simply a preparation for adult life but a thing unique and complete in itself - a masterpiece of God.
Carl Schmitt
#66. In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#67. The Wealth of Nations may not be an original book, but it is unquestionably a masterpiece.
Robert Heilbroner
#68. And when I think there are people around me who complain they can't find anything good to read. What nonsense ... every month you and I discover a masterpiece.
Laurence Cosse
#69. He couldn't, as a respectable master in an English public school, have taken us to a brothel. Yet how I wish he had! His introduction to sexual experience would, I feel sure, have been a masterpiece of tact; it might well have speeded up our development by a good five years.
Christopher Isherwood
#70. Steve Yarbrough is a masterful storyteller-one of our finest-and Safe from the Neighbors is a masterpiece ... This is a spellbinding, powerful novel.
Jill McCorkle
#71. No one wants a masterpiece knocking around when your own book is looking for attention.
Tibor Fischer
#72. Poetry is painting with words where you create a masterpiece by spilling your feelings and emotions onto the blank paper.
Avijeet Das
#73. Love is the greatest artist in the universe; everything it creates is a masterpiece.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#74. Occupy World Street is a masterpiece which deserves to get wide circulation and commitment by world leaders.
Maurice Strong
#75. Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#76. You have two types of writers: one like Proust who was locked in his room and wrote the masterpiece. And the other type was Hemingway who celebrated life and also wrote a masterpiece.
Paulo Coelho
#77. When one's thoughts and experience have not reached a certain point for reading a masterpiece, the masterpiece will leave only a bad flavor on his palate.
Lin Yutang
#78. I dream of writing a book like LOVERS some day. It is so spare but so rich. It is history made intimate, and a masterpiece of compression.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#79. Great imaginations are apt to work from hints and suggestions, and a single moment of emotion is sometimes sufficient to create a masterpiece.
Lady Margaret Sackville
#80. It's like God airbrushed the crap out of her, ran out of paint for everyone else, looked down at all the babies he was chucking to Earth and went 'hahah whoops but check this one out it's a masterpiece'.
Sara Wolf
#81. Make each day a masterpiece. Don't think your best days are out there somewhere. Why not today? Why can't today be a great day? It can if you believe it will.
John Wooden
#82. The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.
William Westmoreland
#83. Your big picture will never be a masterpiece if you ignore the tiny brushstrokes. You're trying so hard to be successful that true success is eluding you.
Andy Andrews
#84. Choice, not chance, determines your destiny. It's up to you to decide what you are worth, how you matter, and how you make meaning in the world. No one else has your gifts
your set of talents, ideas, interests. You are an original. A masterpiece.
Regina Brett
#85. At one point Trudeau mentioned to me that the National Gallery wanted to buy a masterpiece by the great Italian painter Lotto, and it needed a million dollars from the Treasury Board. "Is that Lotto-Quebec or Lotto-Canada?" I joked, but I got the message, and the National Gallery got the painting.
Jean Chretien
#86. Life as Art
If you want to turn your life into a masterpiece
you must humble yourself to sell
a couple of shitty postcards
along the way.
Beryl Dov
#87. What I am looking for is a masterpiece. I don't want to waste my time. I am tired of experiments.
Natalia Makarova
#88. Today, you have the opportunity to transcend from a disempowered mindset of existence to an empowered reality of purpose-driven living. Today is a new day that has been handed to you for shaping. You have the tools, now get out there and create a masterpiece.
Steve Maraboli
#89. The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution.
Tracy Chevalier
#90. Just see how much respect God has paid to you. You are a masterpiece - unrepeatable, incomparable, utterly unique.
Rajneesh
#91. The art of achievement is the art of making life - your life - a masterpiece.
Wilferd Peterson
#92. Beauty without intelligence is a masterpiece painted on a napkin.
Unknown
#93. Your book may be a masterpiece but do not suggest that to the publisher because many of the most hopeless manuscripts that have come his way have probably been so described by their authors.
Stanley Unwin
#95. Picasso was hugely innovative, and, wow, did he have facility, amazing ability, but I don't think he painted a masterpiece.
John Hurt
#97. Praxiteles borrowed the better elements of a hundred imperfect models in order to create a masterpiece.
Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre
#98. How to be listed as a dream in the mind of a young girl is an art, going out is a masterpiece.
Soren Kierkegaard
#99. What makes you different us what makes you stronger. You are a masterpiece uniquely designed by God. You can have tremendous victories, love, and abundance.
Farshad Asl
#100. I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed.
Tim Robbins
