Masterpiece Quotes - Page 10

• In some ways, America has grown up to be a masterpiece of self-concern.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Self, America, United States

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• There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.

  Agnes Repplier

  Appreciate, Literature, Discrimination

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• Knowledge of Rome must be physical, sweated into the system, worked up into the brain through the thinning shoe-leather. ... When it comes to knowing, the senses are more honest than the intelligence. Nothing is more real than the first wall you lean up against sobbing with exhaustion. Rome no more than beheld (that is, taken in through the eyes only) could still be a masterpiece in cardboard - the eye I suppose being of all the organs the most easily infatuated and then jaded and so tricked. Seeing is pleasure, but not knowledge.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Travel, Wall, Real

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• That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Genius, World

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1871). “Atlantic Essays”, p.21

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• Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Needs, Emotion

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• I have never cared very deeply about the actual taste of my work. Let its essential odor satisfy my mind and senses, and I am content. I rarely judge by the grosser test of actual gustation ... in cooking, to create a masterpiece for the nose alone - that is exquisite, that is Art!

  Elinor Wylie

  Art, Judging, Cooking

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• my dream is someday to have a bank of TVs, where all the different channels could be on and I could be monitoring them. I would love that. The more the better. I love the tabloid stuff. The trashier the program is, the more I feel it's TV. ... Because that's TV's mode. That's the Age of Hollywood. The idea of PBS - heavy-duty Masterpiece Theater, Bill Moyers - I hate all that.

  Camille Paglia

  Dream, Hate, Ideas

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• False modesty is the masterpiece of vanity: showing the vain man in such an illusory light that he appears in the reputation of the virtue quite opposite to the vice which constitutes his real character; it is a deceit.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Real, Character, Men

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• In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece.

  A. J. Liebling

  Food, Loss, Light

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• Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

  John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby

  Writing, Chiefs, Authorship

  "Essay on Poetry" by John Sheffield,

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• André Bazin wrote that art emerged from our desire to counter the passage of time and the inevitable decay it brings. But in “Boyhood,” Mr. Linklater's masterpiece, he both captures moments in time and relinquishes them as he moves from year to year. He isn't fighting time but embracing it in all its glorious and agonizingly fleeting beauty.

  Manohla Dargis

  Art, Moving, Fighting

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• The thing that interests me about photography, and why it's different from all other media, is that it's the only medium in which there is even the possibility of an accidental masterpiece.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Media, Different

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• I've had people appear in my life that have helped me. I had more fun. I approached it thinking how would Jack Nicholson, "How would he do it?" So that's really what I did was I created this Gremlin character. So now people come up and they say 'Oh The Exorcist!'.. and I'm like "Did you see Repossessed?" They say either no or yes or whatever, and I say look at this, have a laugh, and then go back and look at a masterpiece.

  Linda Blair

  Fun, Character, Thinking

  "Interview With the Exorcist's Linda Blair". www.ign.com. September 17, 2000.

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• It's a masterpiece [The Exorcist]. This is an honor. I know you may not think so, but it really is. How many movies in our lifetime? This is an honor.

  Linda Blair

  Thinking, Honor, May

  Source: www.ign.com

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• In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers one of the mysterious cogs in God's masterpiece to be a mistake.

  Jean Cocteau

  Mistake, Men, Cogs

  Jean Cocteau, Margaret Crosland (1972). “Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings”, Owen

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• The fact that you couldn't see Alfred Hitchcock's first film The Mountain Eagle, or that you couldn't see so many of F.W. Murnau's masterpieces, or that you couldn't see so many of Oscar Micheaux's really intriguing race melodramas, made with fierce independent spirit against all odds in '20s and '30s America. That stuff haunted me. They really did bring to life a sense of 20th Century history: cultural history, pop history, gender politics and race politics, socio economic history, all that stuff. It was bracing and instructive.

  Guy Maddin

  Independent, America, Race

  Source: thequietus.com

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• For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very English, or at least Anglo-Saxon, feel to it. It was later, through Hayek's masterpieces "The Constitution of Liberty" and "Law, Legislation and Liberty" that I really came to think this principle as having wider application.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  "The Path to Power". Book by Margaret Thatcher, 1995.

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• Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we're seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.

  Barry Goldwater

  War, Negative, Nuclear

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• Give Mozart a fairy tale and he creates without effort an immortal masterpiece.

  Camille Saint-Saens

  Giving, Effort, Fairy Tale

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• 'SMiLE' is perhaps the Beach Boys' most legendary album. It was recorded in 1966 and 1967 but only saw a formal release in 2011. That's a long time to wait for what was said to be Brian Wilson's masterpiece.

  Henry Rollins

  Beach, Boys, Long

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• Your book may be a masterpiece but do not suggest that to the publisher because many of the most hopeless manuscripts that have come his way have probably been so described by their authors.

  Stanley Unwin

  Book, May, Way

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• Katagiri Roshi says: "Poor artists. They suffer very much. They finish a masterpiece and they are not satisfied. They want to go on and do another." Yes, but it's better to go on and do another if you have the urge than to start drinking and become alcoholic or eat a pound of good fudge and get fat.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Drinking, Artist, Suffering

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.52, Shambhala Publications

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• Wall-to-wall masterpieces, after all, ought to be preferred to wall-to-wall decorative arts, even if the decorative arts are of the highest quality peppered and salted with dukes and tiaras.

  Joseph Alsop

  Art, Wall, Quality

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• Words in the mind are like colors on the palette of the artist. The more colors we have access to, the easier it is to create a captivating picture on the canvas, and the more practice we give to using those many colors appropriately and uniquely, the more likely we will be to create a masterpiece of self expression.

  Jim Rohn

  Artist, Self, Expression

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• When you hug someone you want it to be a masterpiece of connection, the way the button on his coat will leave the imprint of a planet in my cheek when I walk away.

  Tess Gallagher

  Hug, Buttons, Connections

  Tess Gallagher (1984). “Willingly: Poems”

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