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Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice. -- Virginia Woolf
Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval since the Industrial Revolution, which has set off a pandemic of retrogressive nationalism, regional separatism, and religious extremism. -- Martin Filler
Masterpieces are only lucky attempts. -- George Sand
Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds. -- Marcel Proust
composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations. -- Ned Rorem
I was very embarrassed when my canvases began to fetch high prices. I saw myself condemned to a future of nothing but Masterpieces. -- Henri Matisse
Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval since the Industrial Revolution, which has set off a pandemic of retrogressive nationalism, regional separatism, and religious extremism." -- Martin Filler
The family is one of nature's masterpieces. -- George Santayana
You can't write masterpieces in your 80s and be happy too. -- Maurice Sendak
The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise. -- Gerard Manley Hopkins
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces. -- Anatole France
There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away. -- Malik Bendjelloul
We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames. -- Rudolf Bing
For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident. -- Sidney Lumet
Bergman made countless masterpieces, but for one reason or another, 'Winter Light' stays closest to my heart. -- Jake Paltrow
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. -- Voltaire
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. -- Marcel Proust
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs. -- Manuel Puig
I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces. -- Michel Hazanavicius
Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists. -- Jack Herer
One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience. -- William Safire
I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the marketplace like they were masterpieces. -- Tommy Lee Jones
At the time that they were shown, the Brillo Boxes were underappreciated. It's only now, with the patina of history, that we can really see these masterpieces in a clear light. -- Mike Bidlo
Clint Eastwood. Here's a guy who's been involved in so many movies, lots of them masterpieces, and now he's a director. I just like everything I know about him. He's very decisive, he makes up his mind real quick. -- Bobby Farrelly
Go out and find a copy of 'The Shrinking Of Treehorn' and its sequel, 'Treehorn's Treasure.' Written by Florence Parry Heide and illustrated by the great Edward Gorey, master of the gothic and the macabre, these books are small masterpieces. -- Chris Riddell
Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago. -- Arthur Machen
It's certainly no secret that American students are taught less and less about the canonical literary masterpieces of the past, and there is no shortage of people who believe that what little they're required to learn in school is still too much. -- Terry Teachout
There is in the DNA of the Italians a bit of madness, which in the overwhelming majority of cases is positive. It is genius. It is talent. It's the masterpieces of art. It's the food, fashion, everything that makes Italy great in the world. -- Matteo Renzi
I don't ascribe to the idea of the ivory tower composer who sits alone in a room composing his masterpieces and then comes down from Mount Sinai with the tablets. It doesn't work like that. The job of a composer is putting something down on a piece of paper that will inspire the person who's playing. -- John Zorn
Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form. -- Hampton Sides
My mother's songs are really turning out to be masterpieces. I have inherited this incredible legacy and am so fortunate to bathe in her sensibilities. It is tinged with tragedy. I'd much rather she was here in person, but there is still a positive force to come out of her death and that is having the gift of music that she gave. -- Rufus Wainwright
Freedom does not guarantee masterpieces. -- E. M. Forster
Creativity without commercialism will result in unseen masterpieces by unknown painters. -- Shriram Iyer
The love of a father is one of nature's greatest masterpieces. -- Helen Lowrie Marshall
The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth. -- Thornton Wilder
A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces. -- Anatole France
Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces. -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions. -- Robert Rauschenberg
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any. -- Igor Stravinsky
I try to play, always, beautiful games...always I wanted to create masterpieces. -- Garry Kasparov
Somehow, conductor as this superhuman conduit between the masters and the masterpieces and the immortals. -- Esa-Pekka Salonen
I was created by the all powerful God to fill the universe with my masterpieces. -- El Greco
That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world. -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
If you imagine my studio floor, you can just keep picking it up and getting masterpieces. -- Leonardo Drew
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients. -- Julia Child
The areas off the greens are masterpieces. I don't think there's anything like it in North America. -- Ben Crenshaw
Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we're seeing is the negative side of nuclear war. -- Barry Goldwater
The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words. -- Thornton Wilder
The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity. -- Alonzo King
Man is a marble piece; unlike Michelangelo's masterpieces, man is unconsciously carved and imperfectly shaped by the nature -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The book is a form in which some of the greatest masterpieces that mankind has ever achieved are expressed; -- David Gelernter
Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces. -- Alex Katz
Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces. -- Karsten Harries
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
Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last. -- Oscar Wilde
... Beethoven concertos ... Tchaicovsky concertos ... with a lot of these wonderful masterpieces there's always something wonderful to find ... there's always something new to find ... -- Itzhak Perlman
If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is! -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces. -- Allegra Goodman
Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out. -- Oscar Wilde
There are certain books in the history of the world that should never have been written. This book makes all those look like masterpieces. -- Jarod Kintz
I don't read reviews about myself with any special eagerness or attention unless they are masterpieces of wit and acumen, and I never reread them. -- Vladimir Nabokov
I draw people as I see them. I'm not involved in making artistic masterpieces. My, my object is to mirror people and I've always done that. -- Jack Kirby
Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn't have dared start. I started very - not innocent, but naÃ¯ve in a way. -- Agnes Varda
It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile. -- Nicolas Chamfort
Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece because masterpieces make their own rules. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Mozart makes you believe in God because it cannot be by chance that such a phenomenon arrives into this world and leaves such an unbounded number of unparalleled masterpieces. -- Georg Solti
Wall-to-wall masterpieces, after all, ought to be preferred to wall-to-wall decorative arts, even if the decorative arts are of the highest quality peppered and salted with dukes and tiaras. -- Joseph Alsop
All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty. -- Billy Graham
We all have many opportunities, but limited capacity to pursue them. Make choices, focus your time and energy, so that you can submit your share of masterpieces to the greater good. -- Kevin B. Rollins
Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts .... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box. -- Winston Churchill
Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and masterpieces; he is the artist as clown, as conjurer, as master funmaker. -- Pauline Kael
Love is greater than marriage, love is the greater thing while marriage, though noble and honorable, is questionable in its origins. I question the creations of man, I do not question the masterpieces of God. -- C. JoyBell C.
Love is greater than marriage, love is the greater thing while marriage, though noble and honorable, is questionable in its origins. I question the creations of man, I do not question the masterpieces of God." -- C. JoyBell C.

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