Masterpiece Quotes

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
- Writing
- Mind
- Said
Somehow, conductor as this superhuman conduit between the masters and the masterpieces and the immortals.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.

William Westmoreland
In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a paragraph, capture the essence of a character in a single conversational exchange, or show us the gulf between his soulful heroine and her dull-witted husband in a sentence (and one that, moreover, presages all Emma's later experience of men). (...) This is one of the summits of prose art, and not to know such a masterpiece is to live a diminished life.

Michael Dirda
Woman is the masterpiece.

Confucius
- Woman
- Masterpiece
You have to be a little scared of what you're doing. Otherwise, you just paint the same masterpiece a little worse.

Alex Katz
- Paint
- Scared
- Masterpiece
Strangers had met and created a true sporting masterpiece - a tapestry of daring and shot-making brilliance that they draped in Laver Arena.

Bud Collins
If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.

Vladimir Nabokov
- Poet
- Observation
- Obscure