'The Rising' isn't Springsteen's masterpiece.

Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in…

— John Hagee

Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't…

— Steve Goodier

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

— Ansel Adams

Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art. The work…

— Marcel Duchamp

Light and subject is inseparable. But when it is well integrated, it becomes the work of a fine masterpiece.

— Paul Chong Hasang

Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.

— Allegra Goodman

I have tried to defend what is most precious to our American society, a society that is now at war against the forces of…

— Demian Bichir

Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to…

— Honore de Balzac

Leaders don't rise to the pinnacle of success without developing the right set of attitudes and habits; they make every day a masterpiece.

— John C. Maxwell

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

— Rob Brezsny

The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant…

— Lewis H. Lapham

“May we each design our own masterpiece”

— Tammy Muehlfelder

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

— Andre Breton

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The goal of a passionate artist is to try and make a masterpiece each and every time, yet be wise enough to know you…

— Donato Giancola