Masterpiece Quotes

312 Masterpiece quotes by 247 unique authors

The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter - perfect in its bud as in its bloom - with no reason to explain… — James Whistler
I was very embarrassed when my canvases began to fetch high prices. I saw myself condemned to a future of nothing but Masterpieces. — Henri Matisse
The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There is no special… — Sherwood Anderson
Draw things that have some meaning to you. An apple, what does it mean? The object drawn doesn't matter so much. It's what you feel… — Sherwood Anderson
Dream masters create a masterpiece of life; they control the dream by making choices. — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Taste for things of the past evolves, doesn't it? What was a masterpiece a hundred years ago is no longer so today. — Alberto Giacometti
Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece because masterpieces make… — Robert Anton Wilson
What I am looking for is a masterpiece. I don't want to waste my time. I am tired of experiments. — Natalia Makarova
An innings of neurotic violence, of eccentric watchfulness, of brainless impetuosity and incontinent savagery - it was an extraordinary innings, a masterpiece and it secured… — Simon Barnes
This art of conservation is strength, and makes the masterpiece a masterpiece. Otherwise, the man who simply brought all the different colors obtainable, and squeezed… — John F. Carlson
I find that as I get into a painting I have high hopes, then little by little I begin to see that it is not… — Robert Genn
And to lose the chance to see frigatebirds soaring in circles above the storm, or a file of pelicans winging their way homeward across the… — Theodore Roosevelt
The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things. — John Muir
I think Chelsea Girls is a complete masterpiece and I think Andy's [Warhol] films are equally as good as the art. I think one day… — John Waters
Dawn itself is the most neglected masterpiece of the modern world. — R. Murray Schafer
Under the microscope, I found that snowflakes were miracles of beauty; and it seemed a shame that this beauty should not be seen and appreciated… — Wilson Bentley
Horror hostess, bondage goddess, Charles Addams cartoon comes to life, Vampire was every first-generation fanboy's wet dream. Scott Poole takes us on an unforgettable ride… — Sheri Holman
Susan Bordo’s Unbearable Weight is a masterpiece of complex an nuanced thinking not only about a significant problem that faces women but about our culture.… — Susan Griffin
The book is a form in which some of the greatest masterpieces that mankind has ever achieved are expressed; — David Gelernter
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces. — Anatole France
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. — Andre Gide
The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence. — Cyril Connolly
Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing. — John Donne
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I look at people like Picasso and Da Vinci and Escher and Miles Davis, and they'll write or paint that one definitive masterpiece of maybe… — Lupe Fiasco

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