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

• 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
  • Long
  • Character
  • Experience

• Somehow, conductor as this superhuman conduit between the masters and the masterpieces and the immortals.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Masters
  • Conductor
  • Superhuman

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

  

  William Westmoreland
  • Military
  • Memorial
  • Masterpiece

• As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Literature
  • Verse
  • Sinecure

• Woman is the masterpiece.

  

  Confucius
  • Woman
  • Masterpiece

• Choice, not chance, determines your destiny. It's up to you to decide what you are worth, how you matter, and how you make meaning in the world. No one else has your gifts--your set of talents, ideas, interests. You are an original. A masterpiece.

  

  Regina Brett
  • World
  • Chance
  • Destiny

• 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
  • Strangers
  • Tapestry
  • Laver Arena

• 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

• Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Emotion
  • Confusion
  • Masterpiece

• Make your life a masterpiece: Step beyond the demands of the moment and begin right now to design and live the life you deserve.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Life
  • Moment
  • Masterpiece

• Watch a French housewife as she makes her way slowly along the loaded stalls... searching for the peak of ripeness and flavor... What you are seeing is a true artist at work, patiently assembling all the materials of her craft, just as the painter squeezes oil colors onto his palette ready to create a masterpiece.

  

  Keith Floyd
  • Artist
  • French
  • Craft

• Mozart shows a creative power of such magnitude that one can virtually say that he tossed out of himself one great masterpiece after another.

  

  Claudio Arrau
  • Power
  • Masterpiece
  • Mozart

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

  

  Tracy Chevalier
  • Painting
  • Inspiration
  • motivation

• Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid it's less like reading a story than experiencing it firsthand.

  

  Melissa Bank
  • Story
  • Masterpiece
  • Firsthand

• Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.

  

  Ernie Pyle
  • Bridges
  • Masterpiece
  • Dark Shadows

• She once complained that her stories were like 'birds bred in cages,' but that concentrated atmosphere, that claustrophobic hothouse of emotion, was her talent. Her stories were little masterpieces of compression: she succinctly contained whole lifetimes in a few pages, every moment loaded with as much as it could bear.

  

  Katie Roiphe
  • Moments
  • Stories
  • Lifetime

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

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • World
  • Fiction
  • Fit

• You were created as a masterpiece and you are one of God's expressions of beauty. Short, tall, thin, thick, freckles, big eyes, small ones . . . it doesn't matter.

  

  Dannah Gresh
  • Eye
  • Expression
  • Modesty

• I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Dust
  • Masterpiece
  • Disintegration

• A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said, brilliant packaging!

  

  Delia Smith
  • Construction
  • Egg
  • Packaging

• Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Masterpiece
  • Resembles

• The female body is a masterpiece. Everyone likes to look at the female body, especially in dynamic, athletic sport.

  

  Natalie Cook
  • Sports
  • Female
  • Athletic

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