Masterpiece Quotes

• When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

  John Ruskin

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

  Julia Child

  Positive, Food, Health

  FaceBook post by Julia Child from Nov 26, 2015

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• You're an original, an individual, a masterpiece. Celebrate that; don't let your uniqueness make you shy. Don't be someone other than the wonder you are. Every star is important to the sky.

  Douglas Pagels

  Stars, Sky, Important

  Alin Austin, Douglas Pagels (1993). “100 Things to Always Remember-- and One Thing to Never Forget”, Blue Mountain Arts

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• Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

  John Wooden

  Friendship, Art, Book

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• In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece

  Kai Greene

  Artist, Mind

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• Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.

  Robert Henri

  Masters, Ifs

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece.

  Albert Einstein

  Color, Lines, Want

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• My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

  Claude Monet

  Beautiful, Art, Garden

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• Make each day your masterpiece. Life is now. Life is not later on.

  John Wooden

  Each Day, Life Is

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• All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty.

  Billy Graham

  Art, Sunshine, Happy Life

  Billy Graham (2004). “The Enduring Classics of Billy Graham”, p.97, Thomas Nelson

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• Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational Life, Lying, Passion

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• 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

  Destiny, Ideas, Choices

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• Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Creativity, Sadness, Artist

  Andrew Forbes, David Henley, Okakura Kakuzo “The Illustrated Book of Tea”

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• Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do

  Brian Tracy

  Life, Excellence, Imagine

  Twitter post from Aug 18, 2015

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• The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity.

  Alonzo King

  Art, Ballet, Humanity

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• Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.

  Denis Waitley

  Life, Art, Perspective

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• a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.

  Arlene Croce

  Excellence, Genius, Alive

  Arlene Croce (2003). “Writing in the Dark, Dancing in The New Yorker: An Arlene Croce Reader”, p.129, Macmillan

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• I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

  Tony Robbins

  Positive, Inspiring, Success

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Feb 24, 2015

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

  Joel Osteen

  Blessed, Made, Secure

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• The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Study, Admire, Effects

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• The ultimate judgment of a work of art, whether it be a masterpiece or a lesser event, must be solely in terms of its artistic success and not on Freudian guesswork.

  Edward Albee

  Art, Events, Judgment

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.53, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Gadflies, Canvas

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

  Leonard Cohen

  Emotional, Slips, Loses

  Song: A Thousand Kisses Deep, Album: Ten New Songs, 2001

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• Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

  Andre Gide

  Art, Overcoming, Resistance

  "Poétique". Book by André Gide, 1947.

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• Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.

  Andre Malraux

  World, Purification

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