Masterpieces Quotes

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A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces. — Anatole France
There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault against the unknown… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love seats. I have… — Morris West
If you, unknowing, are able to create masterpieces in color, then unknowledge is your way. But if you are unable to create masterpieces in color… — Johannes Itten
For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident. — Sidney Lumet
Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces. — Allegra Goodman
Even the weakest and most vulnerable, the sick, the old, the unborn and the poor, are masterpieces of God's creation, made in his own image,… — Pope Francis
The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity. — Alonzo King
The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise. — Gerard Manley Hopkins
... Beethoven concertos ... Tchaicovsky concertos ... with a lot of these wonderful masterpieces there's always something wonderful to find ... there's always something new… — Itzhak Perlman
To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one… — Vincent Van Gogh
Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted to the environment… — E. O. Wilson
The areas off the greens are masterpieces. I don't think there's anything like it in North America. — Ben Crenshaw
My job as an actor has inspired generations of children to become doctors. My job as a writer has opened up the minds of millions.… — Zach Braff
Clint Eastwood. Here's a guy who's been involved in so many movies, lots of them masterpieces, and now he's a director. I just like everything… — Bobby Farrelly
All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both… — Billy Graham
I see now that dismissing YA books because you're not a young adult is a little bit like refusing to watch thrillers on the grounds… — Nick Hornby
Picasso spent hundereds of hours carefully planning his masterpieces. The sketchbooks were filled with ideas, bits and pieces, test runs, none of it meant to… — Brad Alan Lewis
Perhaps the pleasure one feels in writing is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; perhaps it is only a secondary… — Marcel Proust
I taught myself how to draw, and I soon found out it was what I really wanted to do. I didn't think I was going… — Jack Kirby

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