Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
You have two types of writers: one like Proust who was locked in his room and wrote the masterpiece. And the other… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Every thought we think is like a brush stroke on the canvas of our lives. Let’s choose our thoughts, then, as a… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
You know your masterpiece is the piece we couldn't ask more,since the world begins you created it with love and affection. — Jennilyn Pecasis Copy Share Image
Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
You know, the masterpiece of God why are called humans,, do not know, never mind, I'm also do not know — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they don't try or give up when their efforts don't lead to a… — Lauren Tarshis Copy Share Image
All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely, eloquent flowers, the… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love… — Morris West Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease;… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
An innings of neurotic violence, of eccentric watchfulness, of brainless impetuosity and incontinent savagery - it was an extraordinary innings, a masterpiece… — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
Imagine if Lin-Manuel Miranda had tried to do 'Hamilton' first in Hollywood. They would have told him, 'The forefathers weren't Latino or… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
Choice, not chance, determines your destiny. It's up to you to decide what you are worth, how you matter, and how you… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
'Rigoletto' has long been one of my favorite operas, and it was on my short list way back when I first talked… — Michael Mayer Copy Share Image
Picasso spent hundereds of hours carefully planning his masterpieces. The sketchbooks were filled with ideas, bits and pieces, test runs, none of… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
“When I golf, I use just enough strokes to create a masterpiece, like I'm a painter. The score I post up would… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper,… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
André Bazin wrote that art emerged from our desire to counter the passage of time and the inevitable decay it brings. But… — Manohla Dargis Copy Share Image
Celebrate your child's achievement, then rotate it when the next mini-masterpiece comes along. Then chuck the old picture. Don't worry that you're… — Niecy Nash Copy Share Image
Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns is an American masterpiece, a stupendous literary success that channels the social sciences as iconic… — David Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
Live life to the fullest. You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
If life is a blank canvas and all people are artists, the big challenge we all face may be expressed this way:… — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
If you go out and see a lot of movies in a given year, it's really hard to come up with a… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
The Graff Hallucination is a sculptural masterpiece; a celebration of the miracle of coloured diamonds. For many years I have thought about… — Laurence Graff Copy Share Image
It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
'SMiLE' is perhaps the Beach Boys' most legendary album. It was recorded in 1966 and 1967 but only saw a formal release… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Clint Eastwood. Here's a guy who's been involved in so many movies, lots of them masterpieces, and now he's a director. I… — Bobby Farrelly Copy Share Image
I own a copy of the original 'Talking Heads' by Alan Bennett, which I purchased many years ago shortly after they were… — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
Life Is Like A Rubik's Cube; It's Complicated Full Of Twists And Turns. Some People Seek To Solve It In Minutes, Hours,… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
I will fall on my face sometimes And I can't color inside the lines 'Cause I'm perfectly incomplete I'm still working on… — Jessie J Copy Share Image
I was sort of like a kid in a candy store, realizing it was fun making beats without the perceived burden that… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
Watch a French housewife as she makes her way slowly along the loaded stalls... searching for the peak of ripeness and flavor...… — Keith Floyd Copy Share Image
Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have tried to defend what is most precious to our American society, a society that is now at war against the… — Demian Bichir Copy Share Image
