Made Quote by Thornton Wilder

“I want art that makes the world seem more unreal. I want fiction that can crumble the world and build it back into something…

— Lincoln Michel

“Artists are out of step with the world. Yet their works can give us a clearer picture of who we are.”

— Ivan Fernandez

Now is the canvas on which all masterpieces are made.

— Devin Waugh

It is most certainly a good thing that the world knows only the beautiful opus but not its origins, not the conditions of its…

— Thomas Mann

“We are but masterpieces waiting to happen, searching for our inspiration.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

The artist labors while he may, But finds at best too brief the day; And, tho' his works outlast the time And nation that…

— Henry Abbey

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…

— Lupe Fiasco

“I think that here lies the sense of literary creation: to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in the kindly mirrors of…

— Vladimir Nabokov

In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece

— Kai Greene

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

— Oscar Wilde

“life having its elaborate masterpieces, just as poetry has, or sculpture, or painting.”

— Oscar Wilde

“We want our artists to take the mundane materials of our lives, run it through their imaginations, and surprise us.”

— Twyla Tharp