Masterpiece Quotes
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A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.
Vladimir Nabokov
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When an artist works today or whenever, it's not about creating immortal masterpieces, because that's the one thing we don't decide ourselves.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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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
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So after a lovely family Xmas day, this 80s teen is off to bed feeling a bit sad, but listening to this masterpiece George Michael: I can't make you love me.
Nicola Sturgeon
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I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.
Emil Cioran
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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
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Alexander von Humboldt’s wide-ranging Views of Nature is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century natural history, at once science and art. Mark W. Person’s stunning new translation makes the wonders of this classic accessible to the English-language world of the present.
Daniel Walker Howe
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.
Claude Monet
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Give Mozart a fairy tale and he creates without effort an immortal masterpiece.
Camille Saint-Saens
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In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love seats. I have never seen one of them in print. Books must be written, not talked.
Morris West
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Live one day at a time and make it a masterpiece.
Dale West
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"Lost in Translation" by Sofia Coppola. It's a masterpiece. I laughed a lot but was also overwhelmed by the story - a rare combination.
Emmanuelle Bercot
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Every pot is not going to be a masterpiece.
Warren MacKenzie
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It is through Christianity that Judaism has really conquered the world. Christianity is the masterpiece of Judaism.
Ernest Renan
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That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces.
Karsten Harries
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I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed.
Tim Robbins
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You want every movie to be a hit. But every painting isn’t a masterpiece.
Will Ferrell