Masterpiece Quotes · Page 10

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity.

— Ravi Zacharias

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

— Cyril Connolly

You want every movie to be a hit. But every painting isn’t a masterpiece.

— Will Ferrell

The secret to a masterpiece is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“I have never met another like you. You are an original masterpiece.”

— Jenna Roads

I think 'Videodrome' was an absolute philosophical masterpiece.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

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

— Michel de Montaigne

We all have many opportunities, but limited capacity to pursue them. Make choices, focus your time and energy, so that you can…

— Kevin B. Rollins

Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces.

— Karsten Harries

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art…

— Ansel Adams

To me, 'Scream' is a masterpiece on every level - the performances, the humor, the tone - it's just flawless.

— Marley Shelton

I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the…

— Michel Hazanavicius

We just had to stay out-of-the-way [in Fences]. [August Wilson] already wrote a masterpiece. And you really don't know how it's going…

— Denzel Washington

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying…

— Oscar Wilde

You find a lot of junk when you're searching through lost and tossed photo ephemera, but every so often you'll find a…

— Ransom Riggs

What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress? Imagine that you…

— Thomas Crum

“I’m making tiny pictures, on a canvas that is bigger than anyone can ever imagine. My tiny pictures seem to get lost…

— Nanne Nyander

I DECLARE I am special and extraordinary. I am not average! I have been custom-made. I am one of a kind. Of…

— Joel Osteen

We are capable of creating miracles ourselves and the greatest miracle is to create a masterpiece of joy out of your life…

— Carlos Santana

To replace the old paradigm of war with a new paradigm of waging peace, we must be pioneers who can push the…

— Paul K. Chappell

And to lose the chance to see frigatebirds soaring in circles above the storm, or a file of pelicans winging their way…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Act as if the universe is a prodigious miracle created for your amusement and illumination. Assume that secret helpers are working behind…

— Rob Brezsny

You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.

— Robert Rauschenberg

My life will be a masterpiece to me... For I intend to paint it.

— Cv Pillay

“that they were often as thrilled by trash as by an acknowledged masterpiece (32)”

— Émile Zola

God made Man before Woman because you always make the rough draft before the final masterpiece.

— Anonymous

“The masterpiece is symphony played upon our finest feelings.”

— Kakuzō Okakura

Lyrically, 'Nightmare' is an absolute masterpiece to me.

— Synyster Gates

“Layout your options, create a beautiful masterpiece of yours.”

— Napz Cherub Pellazo

The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece.

— Dan Brown

If you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art.

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

But it is the fear, not the writing that defeats me. Everything is not a masterpiece.

— Pearl Cleage

The technical brilliance of Lang Lang and the musical genius to create a masterpiece on the spot.

— Ian Brown

The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.

— Thornton Wilder

In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece

— Kai Greene

Choose your thoughts carefully .. you are a masterpiece of your life.

— Rhonda Byrne

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

— Jean Cocteau