Masterpiece Quotes

312 Masterpiece quotes by 247 unique authors

He found himself weeping. Not for the future or for the emperor. These were the tears of a man who saw before himself a masterpiece.… — Brandon Sanderson
I dream of writing a book like LOVERS some day. It is so spare but so rich. It is history made intimate, and a masterpiece… — Jhumpa Lahiri
You know, I don't want to be offensive. But 'Infinite Jest' [regarded by many as Wallace's masterpiece] is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have… — Harold Bloom
I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece. — Emile M. Cioran
I now find peace in the realization that countless potential masterpieces happen each moment the world over and go unphotographed. The world owes a great… — Dan Winters
We all have many opportunities, but limited capacity to pursue them. Make choices, focus your time and energy, so that you can submit your share… — Kevin B. Rollins
Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you… — Robert Breault
The wealthiest places in the world are not gold mines, oil fields, diamond mines or banks. The wealthiest place is the cemetery. There lies companies… — Myles Munroe
We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us. — Arthur Schopenhauer
In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was sort of like a kid in a candy store, realizing it was fun making beats without the perceived burden that every track I… — DJ Shadow
Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last. — Oscar Wilde
Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid it's less like reading a… — Melissa Bank
Woman is the masterpiece. — Confucius
Man is Creation's masterpiece. But who says so? — Elbert Hubbard
One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience. — William Safire
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any. — Igor Stravinsky
Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece. — Robert Bloch
Nature meant woman to be her masterpiece. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs. — Manuel Puig

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