Quotes with masterpiece

  • 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.

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  • William Shakespeare Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Barry Hannah Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Edmond de Goncourt A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Virginia Woolf 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
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • André Gide Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Arthur Miller 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
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Anthony Robbins 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.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Dwight L. Moody 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
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • 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.
    Popolo dItalia (14 July 1920) The Artificer and the Material, quoted in Mussolini in the Making (1938) by Gaudens Megaro, p. 326
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg 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.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Jean Cocteau The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Cyril Connolly The more books we read, the sooner we perceive that the true function of the writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.
    The Unquiet Grave (1944)
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Arnold Newman 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
    American photographer (1918 - 2006)
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  • Victor Hugo 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
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • André Malraux To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • John Ruskin When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Denis Waitley 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
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Andre Breton Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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