Masterpiece Quotes

312 Masterpiece quotes by 247 unique authors

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 Bordoâ€™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
I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces. — Michel Hazanavicius
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well… — Victor Hugo
It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of… — Dwight L. Moody
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece. — Vladimir Nabokov
A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader. — Vladimir Nabokov

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