Masterpiece Quotes
312 Masterpiece quotes by 247 unique authors
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I don't ascribe to the idea of the ivory tower composer who sits alone in a room composing his masterpieces and then comes down from…
— John Zorn
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Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval…
— Martin Filler
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The work that launched Snohetta into the architectural big leagues was their Oslo Opera House, which will certainly rank among the firm's highlights whatever else…
— Martin Filler
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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 throwing away a…
— Niecy Nash
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Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted…
— Pope John Paul II
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I become one of those people who walks alone in the dark at night while others sleep or watch Mary Tyler Moore reruns or pull…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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You are equipped with strong bodies and educated minds. Add to these an unshakable faith in a divine providence and you have the tools by…
— Harold B. Lee
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Make every day your masterpiece.
— John Wooden
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You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity.
— Ravi Zacharias
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Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.
— William Shakespeare
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To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct.…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the…
— A. J. Jacobs
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The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth.
— Thornton Wilder
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You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
— Julia Child
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Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.
— Oscar Wilde
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If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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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 yourself short. You're…
— Marisha Pessl
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To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery(the media) that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that is required…
— Oswald Spengler
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Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know…
— Rajneesh
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You are the masterpiece of your own life. You are the Michelangelo of your own life. The David you are sculpturing is you (Dr. Joe…
— Rhonda Byrne
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YOU ARE AN ARTIST OF THE SPIRIT Find yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly. Life is nothing but…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
— Claude Monet
Who Wrote These Masterpiece Quotes
247 authors contributed a total of 312 Masterpiece Quotes, led by these top contributors: