Best 131 quotes in «masterpiece quotes» category

Choose your thoughts carefully [...] you are the masterpiece of your own life.

composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.

I could never make a ballet by wrinkling my brow and concentrating. If you set out deliberately to make a masterpiece, how will you ever get it finished?

Every pot is not going to be a masterpiece.

God can take the good, bad and the bitter and create a masterpiece called your destiny.

God made you a masterpiece - be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

I always thought Uncle Vanya could be a stoned masterpiece.

Just see how much respect God has paid to you. You are a masterpiece - unrepeatable, incomparable, utterly unique.

I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from all directions in a vaudevillian way. If you didn't like what was happening in one scene, you could just snooze through it until the next scene. That was the thing about vaudeville: You didn't have to worry about the beginning and ends of these things.

I was created by the all powerful God to fill the universe with my masterpieces.

Just two words: a masterpiece.

I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine'.

Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.

Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine.

Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

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

Man is a marble piece; unlike Michelangelo's masterpieces, man is unconsciously carved and imperfectly shaped by the nature

The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things.

The orchid is Mother Nature's masterpiece.

The technical brilliance of Lang Lang and the musical genius to create a masterpiece on the spot.

The secret to a masterpiece is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.

The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages.

The Universe is a masterpiece of abundance.

The Wealth of Nations may not be an original book, but it is unquestionably a masterpiece.

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

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

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

You are the human clay," Vosch whispers fiercely in my ear. "And I am Michelangelo. I am the master builder, and you will be my masterpiece.

A masterpiece is a piece that masters things.

A masterpiece does not unfurl its wings immediately. It takes time. It will fly when it is ready.

Always set your mind to think thoughts of victory even before the battle begins, this way you will experience limitless possibilities.

Could I but acquaint the world with Robert G. Ingersoll's humanity, with his ideas and his sentiments of love, patience and understanding, a renascence would automatically take place that would give life and living on this little earth of ours some semblance of what we call paradise. And this great and wonderful man had to die! I do not know the purpose of life, nor do I understand why death should come to all that is; but this I do know -- that when Robert G. Ingersoll died, on July 21, 1899, then you and I, and the whole world, suffered a mortal blow. When the mighty heart, of his mighty body, that supplied the blood to his mighty brain, burst, never again was there to fall from his eloquent lips the pearls of thought that had been so wondrously formed in his brain. The mightiest voice in all the world was silenced, forever. No wonder the people wept when they heard that Ingersoll was dead. He was the greatest of the Great -- the Mightiest of the Mighty. He was 'as constant as the Northern Star whose true fixed and resting quality there is no fellow in the firmament.' He was the indistinguishable star whose brilliance never dimmed. When Robert G. Ingersoll died, his death was 'the ruins of the noblest man that ever lived in the tide of time ... When shall we ever see another?' When Robert G. Ingersoll died, the sky should have been rent asunder, and Nature should have gone into mourning. When this man died, Nature's masterpiece was destroyed, and hot tears of grief should have fallen from the heavens. Robert G. Ingersoll no longer belongs to his family; He no longer belongs to his friends; He no longer belongs to his country; Robert G. Ingersoll now belongs to all the world -- the whole universe -- He is immortal and eternal. Among the galaxies of Nature's masterpieces, none shine with a greater brilliance than the babe who was born in this house 121 years ago today, and named Robert Green Ingersoll.

As I stated earlier, I do not believe there is anything inherently wrong with even the most overused elements of epic fantasy. Magic swords, dragons, destined heroes -- even dark lords and ultimate evils can legitimately be used in literature of serious intent, not just mocked in satirical meta-fiction. To claim that they cannot would be much the same as claiming that nothing good can ever again be done with fiction involving detectives, or young lovers, or unhappy families. The value of a fictive element is not an inherent quality, but a contextual one, determined by its relationship to the other elements of the story it is embedded in. In other words, whether a scene in which a dragon is introduced is affecting, amusing, or agonizingly dull depends primarily on the choices made by the scene's author. I say "primarily" because dragons have appeared in thousands of stories over the centuries, and almost any reader may be presumed to have been exposed to at least one such. The reader's reaction will naturally be influenced by how they feel this new dragon compares to the dragons which they have been introduced to in the past. (Favorably, one would hope. A dragon must learn to make a good first impression if it is to do well in this life.) Such variables are out of the author's control, as are any unreasoning prejudices against dragons on the part of the reader. All that can be done is to make the dragon as vivid and well-suited for its purpose as is possible. If all the elements of fantasy and fiction in a work are fitted to their purposes and combine to create a moving story set in a convincing world, that work will presumably be a masterpiece.

... and isn't the world a treasure in itself? A spectacle glittering every single day, without a concern if anyone's watching or not. It simply goes on, elegantly, letting nature have its way. We only need to open our eyes to witness the biggest masterpiece ever created, the ticket is already in your hand.

Birds do not attend music school, but compose timeless masterpieces.

GOD made you a masterpiece, stop treating yourself like a shattered piece.

At times in life God will break you down so he can reconstruct and rebuild you into his divine masterpiece.

Choose your thoughts, carve them in your mind and fix your gaze on them always.

Don't give-up on your greatest masterpiece — you.

Fine art refers to an accomplished or advanced skill being used to testify and reveal the knowledge, ability, and wisdom of the creator. There is no art more exquisite than the work of the Master Artist Himself. Even those who choose to deny Him credit for His own creation are often engaged as an admirer of His work. Refusing to acknowledge the Source will never minimize His glory or extinguish the truth. With God’s loving guidance our life can be a great masterpiece filled with beauty, adventure, hope and purpose.

God is so omnipotent yet man so impotent, the Divine masterpiece was not even in creating the universe, but in making sin boring to sinners.

Her life is lived through the masterpiece of art, that she cannot draw.

He wore a tailor's masterpiece of obsidian fabric so expensive that it would've been personally offended to have been referred to as a 'black suit'. It was a really nice black suit.

I am a work in progress, truly a unique yet unfinished masterpiece

How far you go in life and in your career is dependent on how far you can think good thoughts!

I miss your voice because it is a symphony; your scent because it is a treasure; your smile because it is a jewel; your hug because it is a masterpiece; and your kiss because it is a miracle.

If chaos is a masterpiece, Then you should see my heart. If battle scars are beautiful, Then I'm a work of art.

I find it incredibly amazing how at every sunset, the sky is a different shade. No cloud is ever in the same place. Each day is a new masterpiece. A new wonder. A new memory.