Masterpiece Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

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

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

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

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.

Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece.

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

The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.

There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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

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

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

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.

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.