Artist Quote by Virginia Woolf

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

— Virginia Woolf

a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.

— Arlene Croce

In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece

— Kai Greene

“Plenty of masterpieces are just one cliché after another, Mozart for example, but that's quite natural, because if you think about it, two clichés…

— Thomas Ades

“Plenty of masterpieces are just one cliché after another, Mozart for example, but that's quite natural, because if you think about it, two clichés…

— Thomas Ades

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

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

The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who…

— Andre Malraux

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

The ultimate judgment of a work of art, whether it be a masterpiece or a lesser event, must be solely in terms of its…

— Edward Albee

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

— Oscar Wilde

The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter - perfect in its bud as in its bloom - with no reason to…

— James Whistler