Masterpiece Quotes - Page 5

• To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Real, Book, Artist

  Naomi E. Maurer, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin (1998). “The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin”, p.15, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience.

  William Safire

  Art, America, Challenges

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• We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Art, Waiting, Comfort

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• Without those forerunners, Jane Austen and the Brontes and George Eliot could no more have written than Shakespeare could have written without Marlowe, or Marlowe without Chaucer, or Chaucer without those forgotten poets who paved the ways and tamed the natural savagery of the tongue. For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

  Virginia Woolf

  Thinking, Years, Voice

  Virginia Woolf (1989). “A Room of One's Own”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in God has, but not atheism. Atheism has never given anyone piece of mind. Atheism has never dried a tear. Atheism has never given an intellectual answer to the creation. Atheism is bankrupt and empty; it's brain dead.

  John Hagee

  Intellectual, Brain, Mind

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• When you talk about painters and you talk about painters painting masterpieces, there is no painter who painted only one painting and that was a masterpiece. You have to do a whole bunch of paintings to get to the place of mastering your craft.

  Walter Mosley

  Crafts, Painting, Bunch

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The Universe is a masterpiece of abundance.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law Of Attraction, Abundance, Universe

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Secret”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Inspiration, Secret, Percent

  "Interview With Mario Vargas Llosa". Interview with Katharyn Rodemann, www.texasmonthly.com. November 2002.

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• Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval since the Industrial Revolution, which has set off a pandemic of retrogressive nationalism, regional separatism, and religious extremism.

  Martin Filler

  Religious, Art, Pandemics

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• Your big picture will never be a masterpiece if you ignore the tiny brushstrokes. You're trying so hard to be successful that true success is eluding you.

  Andy Andrews

  Successful, Trying, Tiny

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• There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.

  Paul Mellon

  Unique, Emotional, Intellectual

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• Nature intended that woman should be her masterpiece.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Women, Should

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  All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of their masterpiece.

  Eddie Murphy

  Men, Self, Ideas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My favourite film-maker west of the English Channel is not English - but to me doesn't seem American either - David Lynch - a curious American-European film-maker. He has - against odds - achieved what we want to achieve here. He takes great risks with a strong personal voice and adequate funds and space to exercise it. I thought Blue Velvet was a masterpiece.

  Peter Greenaway

  Strong, Exercise, Odds

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Light and subject is inseparable. But when it is well integrated, it becomes the work of a fine masterpiece.

  Paul Chong Hasang

  Black And White, Light, Fine

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• Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Bows, Critics, Written

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti (2001). “San Francisco Poems”, p.28, City Lights Books

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• If I belong to a tradition it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what he should do and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.

  Alfred Brendel

  Pieces, Tradition, Should

  "Alfred Brendel, A Personal 75th Birthday Selection" by Anthony Holden, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2006.

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• And the works that endure and will endure for ever, the great masterpieces, cannot have come into being as humanity... imagines. Man is only the vessel into which is poured what "nature in general" wants to express.

  Anton Webern

  Men, Humanity, Want

  Anton Webern (1975). “The path to the new music”, European Amer Music Dist Corp

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• Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Science, Ladders

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• 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.

  Harmony Korine

  Fall, Worry, Scene

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault against the unknown forces in order to overcome them and prostrate them before men.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Struggle, Character, Men

  "Futurism: An Anthology" edited by Laura Wittman, Christine Poggi, Yale University Press, (p. 52), 2009.

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• Self-righteousness is the devil's masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves.

  Thomas Adams

  Thinking, Self, Devil

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• I'm a perfectionist; there's always something we need to improve upon, and I think that's a really healthy model for artistic growth and progressing. I'm not ready for a masterpiece.

  Michael Angelakos

  Thinking, Healthy, Growth

  "15 Minutes with Passion Pit’s Michael Angelakos". Interview with Jessica Calefati, www.motherjones.com. April 26, 2010.

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• Great imaginations are apt to work from hints and suggestions, and a single moment of emotion is sometimes sufficient to create a masterpiece.

  Lady Margaret Sackville

  Single Mom, Imagination, Suggestions

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• Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.

  Jean Cocteau

  Running, Dog, Knowing

  "Diary of an Unknown". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1988.

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