Masterpiece Quotes

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

All TV can do is capture the spirit of a book because the medium is so utterly different. But I'm very grateful for the readers that Masterpiece Theatre has undoubtedly brought me.

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece.

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

I couldn't be happier about being a part of 'Hunger Games' and to play Katniss. I have a huge responsibility to the fans of this incredible book and I don't take it lightly. I will give everything I have to these movies and to this role to make it worthy of Suzanne Collins' masterpiece.

A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.

To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved.

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece.

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.

For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them.

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

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 faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.

I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed.