Masterpiece Quotes

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.
John Wooden

Friendship, Good, Art

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Friend, May

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.
Tony Robbins

Life, Live, Challenge

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

Religion, Art, Training

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

Work, Art, Human

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
Leonardo da Vinci

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.
Victor Hugo

Easy, Whatever, Genius

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin

Love, Work, Together

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?
Dwight L. Moody

Faith, Religion, Children

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.
Denis Waitley

Work, Art, Winners

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

Book, Dead, Talent

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

Great, Art, Human

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.
Virginia Woolf

Mind, Said, Once

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

Great, Respect, True

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

Guitar, Hand, Weapon

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

Existence, Series, Obscure

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

May, Dull, Unwelcome

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

Nature, Great, Elephant

My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies - is Christian Marclay's endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece 'The Clock.'
Jerry Saltz

Love, Best, Movies

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

Greatest, Order, Literature

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

Life, Trying, Write

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

Nature, Wise, Writing

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

True, Writer, Task

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

Fiction, Original, Fit

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.
Arthur Miller

Live, Through, Son

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.
Arnold Newman

Perfect, Impossible, Put

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.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Free, Reason, Creation

'The Good Soldier' is an odd and maybe even unique book. That it is a masterpiece, almost a perfect novel, comes as a repeated surprise even to readers who have read it before.
Jane Smiley

Good, Book, Before

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.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

Down, Write, Read

An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.
Arthur Smith

Artist, Glamorous, Canvas

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