Great Masterpieces Quotes

#1. And the works that endure and will endure for ever, the great masterpieces, cannot have come into being as humanity ... imagines. Man is only the vessel into which is poured what "nature in general" wants to express.

Anton Webern

#2. Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#3. This is what great masterpieces must feel like on museum walls - like sighing, like climbing out of their rigidly stretched frames, and falling, boneless, into a lover's glance.

Leylah Attar

#4. It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.

Nicolas Chamfort

#5. Yes, the princess you were expecting put on her armor and left to kill the dragon. So sorry.

Ilona Andrews

#6. no matter how little it might seem, if you are doing it for the Lord and you are doing it with a pure heart, it is not a waste of time

Sunday Adelaja

#7. In East of Eden, John Steinbeck wrote that there's never been a great creative collaboration. When the Beatles first burst on the scene, I thought they were proving him wrong. Later, we learned that Lennon and McCartney had each composed their pop masterpieces separately, individually. So it goes.

Tom Robbins

#8. To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.

Vincent Van Gogh

#9. Live with a vision.
Live with a mission.
Live with passion.

Debasish Mridha

#10. My mum was crazy. And her mum was crazy. And her mum's mum was crazy. Is it my turn? Am I going to live the rest of my life giggling at raindrops, wearing paper slippers? When I go to dinner with friends should I not use a fork 'cause I just might snap? Hey, you guys look great. How's the baby?

Christopher Titus

#11. There is in the DNA of the Italians a bit of madness, which in the overwhelming majority of cases is positive. It is genius. It is talent. It's the masterpieces of art. It's the food, fashion, everything that makes Italy great in the world.

Matteo Renzi

#12. If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.

Elbert Hubbard

#13. Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces.

Marcel Proust

#14. We're painting the same people all our life - it's just the way we look at them that changes. If you experience trauma, you can speak about it in so many different ways. You can speak about landscape, you can speak about your food; it's always different. Trauma is the beginning of life as an artist.

Christian Boltanski

#15. I now find peace in the realization that countless potential masterpieces happen each moment the world over and go unphotographed. The world owes a great debt to all those who have, from a state of exceptional awareness, preserved stillness for us to hold.

Dan Winters

#16. Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.

Andrew Solomon

#17. A great painter does not content himself by affecting us with his masterpieces; ultimately, he succeeds in changing the landscape of our minds. Once

Orhan Pamuk

#18. Go out and find a copy of 'The Shrinking Of Treehorn' and its sequel, 'Treehorn's Treasure.' Written by Florence Parry Heide and illustrated by the great Edward Gorey, master of the gothic and the macabre, these books are small masterpieces.

Chris Riddell

#19. Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago.

Arthur Machen

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

Marcel Proust

#21. Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.

Marcel Proust