Top 433 Masterpiece Quotes & Sayings

Just two words: a masterpiece.

The cat is nature's masterpiece.

I look at people like Picasso and Da Vinci and Escher and Miles Davis, and they'll write or paint that one definitive masterpiece of maybe 50 that they have that's really trying to go outside the box, trying to do something that's tough. And then when you accomplish it, you look back and go, 'Yeeaaaah - masterpiece.'

Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

The Universe is a masterpiece of abundance.

Your goal is to write that masterpiece. Yello's masterpiece was "Oh Yeah." Whatever I say about the song doesn't matter, because it has a huge impact on how we remember the era.

In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece

Lonesome Dove is a great book that had the rare fortune of being made into a great movie. And now, through Bill Wittliff's photographs, we have a third generation of Lonesome Dove artistry. The same creative power and conviction that allowed Larry McMurtry to transform a workaday scenario for an unproduced screenplay into one of the greatest novels of our time, and that transformed that novel into the greatest western movie ever made, are on display in this collection. A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove is a masterpiece begot by a masterpiece begot by a masterpiece.

Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.

I want to make my own life a masterpiece.

The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.

I will fall on my face sometimes And I can't color inside the lines 'Cause I'm perfectly incomplete I'm still working on my masterpiece And I, I wanna hang with the greats Got a way to go, but it's worth the wait No, you haven't seen the best of me I'm still working on my masterpiece

I think 'Videodrome' was an absolute philosophical masterpiece.

Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Lyrically, 'Nightmare' is an absolute masterpiece to me.

You are a masterpiece of creation.

Live one day at a time and make it a masterpiece.

Every day is a masterpiece, even if it crushes you.

But it is the fear, not the writing that defeats me. Everything is not a masterpiece.

Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover - a) that you're actually a statue of Margaret Thatcher. b) that you're still just a block of marble. c) that there are pigeon droppings on your shoes. d) that you, too, are a hidden masterpiece.

Make each day a masterpiece.

Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.

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.

I saw Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, which I thought was a masterpiece. Not that long ago, I listened to Blackstar by David Bowie and thought that was a masterpiece. Those are two incredibly talented people who've left their mark with us.

This art of conservation is strength, and makes the masterpiece a masterpiece. Otherwise, the man who simply brought all the different colors obtainable, and squeezed them out upon the canvas to give it 'full force,' would be the greatest master, instead of being merely extravagant.

I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.

The orchid is Mother Nature's masterpiece.

'Sandinista!' is a masterpiece.

Mary is God's masterpiece. Have you ever walked into a museum where an artist was displaying his work? Can you imagine him being offended if you were viewing what he considered to be his masterpiece? Would he resent your looking at that instead of at him? 'Hey, you should be looking at me!' Rather, the artist would receive honor because of the attention you were giving his work. And Mary is God's work, from beginning to end.

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

Woman is the masterpiece.

Flowers are heaven's masterpiece.

To make a masterpiece would be my life's dream.

'The Rising' isn't Springsteen's masterpiece.

Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .

This world, he thinks, contains just one masterpiece, and that is itself.

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.

Nature meant woman to be her masterpiece.

Every pot is not going to be a masterpiece.

God sees in you a masterpiece about to happen

Airing one's dirty linen never makes for a masterpiece.

You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece.

You have two types of writers: one like Proust who was locked in his room and wrote the masterpiece. And the other type was Hemingway who celebrated life and also wrote a masterpiece.

Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece.

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

Definitely 'HUMBLE' was a masterpiece.

The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution.

Each of us is a masterpiece of God's creation

If you go out and see a lot of movies in a given year, it's really hard to come up with a top ten, because you saw a lot of stuff that you liked. A top 20 is easier. You probably get one masterpiece a year, and I don't think you should expect more than one masterpiece a year, except in a really great year.

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

I thought 'Dead Man's Shoes' was a masterpiece.

Man is Creation's masterpiece. But who says so?

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

We are the clay, and you are Michelangelo. And we will be your masterpiece.

You are carrying a masterpiece hidden within you, but you are standing in the way. Just move aside, then the masterpiece will be revealed. Everyone is a masterpiece, because God never gives birth to anything less than that. Everyone carries that masterpiece hidden for many lives, not knowing who they are and just trying on the surface to become someone. Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it. God himself has created you; you cannot be improved.

I do think there's not enough film history being taught and appreciated. Maybe it's being taught, but I've heard from professors that young kids don't want to look at black-and-white movies. And that's 85 years of film history, with masterpiece after masterpiece.

Make every day your masterpiece.

You can't have a masterpiece without madness.

A true masterpiece does not tell everything.