A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
What I did in the book [Today Matters] is I tried to help a person make their day - every day -… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine. — Bong Joon-ho Copy Share Image
Although the works of the Creator may be in themselves all equally perfect, the animal is, as I see it, the most… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
I'm a huge David Fincher fan, and to me, 'Zodiac' is a masterpiece. I re-watch that movie all the time. — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of a masterpiece. — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
These days it seems like any idiot with a laptop computer can churn out a business book and make a few bucks.… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. A true man finds so much work to do that he has no time to… — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him. — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Copy Share Image
We painted a beautiful picture, but we just didn't finish it. Finishing is the difference between a beautiful picture and a masterpiece. — Don Meyer Copy Share Image
Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Picasso was hugely innovative, and, wow, did he have facility, amazing ability, but I don't think he painted a masterpiece. — John Hurt Copy Share Image
When we teach a child to sing or play the flute, we teach her how to listen. When we teach her to… — Jane Alexander Copy Share Image
Well, it doesn't look good. Makes me look like one of those unloved latchkey children they make after-school specials about." "Don't sell… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
In editing, you really face what the movie is. When you shoot it, you have this illusion that you're making the masterpieces… — Daniel Espinosa Copy Share Image
I become one of those people who walks alone in the dark at night while others sleep or watch Mary Tyler Moore… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission...its masterpiece is, to reunite them. — Alexandre Vinet Copy Share Image
For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words in cadence,… — James Emanuel Copy Share Image
I was created by the all powerful God to fill the universe with my masterpieces. — El Greco Copy Share Image