Masterpiece Quotes · Page 7

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

— Robert Rauschenberg

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Will Ferrell

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

— Cyril Connolly

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

— Mario Vargas Llosa

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

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

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

— Ian Brown

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

— Cv Pillay

Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build…

— John Wooden

All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of a masterpiece.

— Eddie Murphy

So after a lovely family Xmas day, this 80s teen is off to bed feeling a bit sad, but listening to this…

— Nicola Sturgeon

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

— Manuel Puig

There is a movie called Fargo playing right now. It is a masterpiece. Go see it. If you, under any circumstances, see…

— Roger Ebert

Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are…

— E. O. Wilson

Mozart shows a creative power of such magnitude that one can virtually say that he tossed out of himself one great masterpiece…

— Claudio Arrau

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

You know, I don't want to be offensive. But 'Infinite Jest' [regarded by many as Wallace's masterpiece] is just awful. It seems…

— Harold Bloom

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

— Thomas Crum

This art of conservation is strength, and makes the masterpiece a masterpiece. Otherwise, the man who simply brought all the different colors…

— John F. Carlson

If I belong to a tradition it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what he should do and…

— Alfred Brendel

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

For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or…

— Tom Glazer

“Whether it means producing a piece of art, writing a short story, or simply bringing beauty into our home or into the…

— Mary Potter Kenyon

A Christian is not simply a person who is forgiven and goes to heaven. A Christian, in terms of his or her…

— Neil T Anderson

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

— Anonymous

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

— Synyster Gates

Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius.

— E. O. Wilson

In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece

— Kai Greene

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

— Thornton Wilder

No one wants a masterpiece knocking around when your own book is looking for attention.

— Tibor Fischer

We are the clay, and you are Michelangelo. And we will be your masterpiece.

— Rick Yancey

The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things.

— John Muir

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

— Carl Sandburg

A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.

— Anatole France

Do your best every day. Live each day as if it's your masterpiece.

— John Wooden

“It is not up to the writer to create a masterpiece. That is what readers do.”

— Bart J. Gilbertson

Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine.

— Francis Ford Coppola

A letter from the heart may never be judged or graded, for it is the masterpiece of one's love.

— Anonymous

This world, he thinks, contains just one masterpiece, and that is itself.

— David Mitchell

'The Cherry Orchard' is a masterpiece, and there can never be too many adaptations.

— Stephen Karam