Masterpiece Quotes

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. (John Ruskin)
The greatest masterpiece of literature is only a dictionary out of order. View quote
Jean Cocteau
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. View quote
Arthur Miller
A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
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. View quote
Anthony Robbins
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. View quote
André Gide
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The laws of physics is the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece. (Dan Brown)
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. View quote
Alfred Brendel
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece. View quote
Claude Monet
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. View quote
John Wooden
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. View quote
Tom Glazer
At one point Trudeau mentioned to me that the National Gallery wanted to buy a masterpiece by the great Italian painter Lotto, and it needed a million dollars from the Treasury Board. "Is that Lotto-Quebec or Lotto-Canada?" I joked, but I got the message, and the National Gallery got the painting. View quote
Jean Chrétien
Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing. View quote
John Donne
If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term "masterpiece" to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to convey a notion of perfection: a notion that leads to much confusion when applied to artists other than those who made perfection their ideal. View quote
André Malraux
One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of imagination which suffuses them and style alike with that grotesquerie and disquieting distortion characteristic of morbid vision. Only a cynic can create horror-for behind every masterpiece of the sort must reside a driving daemonic force that despises the human race and its illusions, and longs to pull them to pieces and mock them. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter-perfect in its bud as in its bloom - with no reason to explain it's presence - no mission to fulfill - a joy to the artist, a delusion to the philanthropist - a puzzle to the botanist - an accident of sentiment and alliteration to the literary man. View quote
James McNeill Whistler
A disciple asked, "Who is a Master?" The Master replied, "Anyone to whom it is given to let go of the ego. Such a person's life is then a masterpiece. (Anthony de Mello)
I want to make my own life a masterpiece. View quote
Benito Mussolini
Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable than iron. There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities. View quote
Benito Mussolini
The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature. View quote
Antoine François Prévost
A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art. View quote
Allan Kaprow