Masterpiece Quotes

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

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

Masterpieces are only lucky attempts.

Although the works of the Creator may be in themselves all equally perfect, the animal is, as I see it, the most complete work of nature, and man is her masterpiece.

The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.

Jonah peered critically up at the Renaissance masterpiece. "Man, those copies don't due it justice. This one's the truth!" "Only a Janus," groaned Hamilton.

The love of a father is one of nature's greatest masterpieces.

"The Big Lebowski" is a real masterpiece, as far as I'm concerned. I suppose I'm a bit biased because I'm in it.

What I did in the book [Today Matters] is I tried to help a person make their day - every day - their masterpiece.

The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things.

'Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song.

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.

Dream masters create a masterpiece of life; they control the dream by making choices.

When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.

That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world.

Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed 'Dr. Strangelove' as a black comedy. The film is routinely described as a masterpiece.

The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.

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.

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

Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.

Woman is the masterpiece.

We just had to stay out-of-the-way [in Fences]. [August Wilson] already wrote a masterpiece. And you really don't know how it's going to work until you get it in front of an audience.

The goal of a passionate artist is to try and make a masterpiece each and every time, yet be wise enough to know you will fall short.

Do your best every day. Live each day as if it's your masterpiece.

Great imaginations are apt to work from hints and suggestions, and a single moment of emotion is sometimes sufficient to create a masterpiece.

With a camera like that you don't believe you're in the masterpiece business. It's enough to be able to peck at the world.

I'm a perfectionist; there's always something we need to improve upon, and I think that's a really healthy model for artistic growth and progressing. I'm not ready for a masterpiece.

So after a lovely family Xmas day, this 80s teen is off to bed feeling a bit sad, but listening to this masterpiece [George Michael: I can't make you love me].

Light and subject is inseparable. But when it is well integrated, it becomes the work of a fine masterpiece.

There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.

The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of marble and God is the sculptor, and the chisel is.... everything.

Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

Your book may be a masterpiece but do not suggest that to the publisher because many of the most hopeless manuscripts that have come his way have probably been so described by their authors.

The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don't believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life.

Life is like cooking your masterpiece recipe. You have to get the right ingredients,have the right mixture and the right cooking time to reveal the PERFECT and DELICIOUS TASTE of your craft.

You are a masterpiece of creation.

We painted a beautiful picture, but we just didn't finish it. Finishing is the difference between a beautiful picture and a masterpiece.

I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.

Nature meant woman to be her masterpiece.

The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.

Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.

I have gotten everything from a one-page letter written in pencil to a 50-page computer generated masterpiece.

This epic masterpiece tells the world changing story of Jesus and inspires us to love and live for others just as He did.

In some ways, America has grown up to be a masterpiece of self-concern.

The art of achievement is the art of making life - your life - a masterpiece.

My body is an ugly masterpiece that lives off the beauty of sound.

Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission, its masterpiece, is to reunite them.

Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.

I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine'.

Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way.