Artist Quote by Igor Stravinsky

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless…

— Anonymous

In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece

— Kai Greene

No artist is well served in thinking what will happen to their works. The best one can hope is that they'll enter the mainstream,…

— Twyla Tharp

When an artist works today or whenever, it's not about creating immortal masterpieces, because that's the one thing we don't decide ourselves.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

You want every movie to be a hit. But every painting isn’t a masterpiece.

— Will Ferrell

Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.

— Oscar Wilde

If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term "masterpiece" to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to…

— Andre Malraux

I'm neither excited nor worried when my film releases. As an artiste, I would definitely want people to like my work... that's why we…

— Sayani Gupta

It is not about surpassing the masters who preceded us but more about opening new artistic vistas. It is about doing the things they…

— Liu Dan

There is no assurity that something will be a success because it is a remake or because it does/does not have a superstar.

— Nikita Dutta