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• When we teach a child to sing or play the flute, we teach her how to listen. When we teach her to draw, we teach her to see. When we teach a child to dance, we teach him about his body and about space, and when he acts on a stage, he learns about character and motivation. When we teach a child design, we reveal the geometry of the world. When we teach children about the folk and traditional arts and the great masterpieces of the world, we teach them to celebrate their roots and find their own place in history.

  Jane Alexander

  Art, Motivation, Children

  Jane Alexander (2007). “Command Performance: An Actress in the Theater of Politics”, p.322, Da Capo Press

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

  Robert Heilbroner

  Book, May, Wealth

  Robert L. Heilbroner (1955). “The Great Economists: Their Lives and Their Conceptions of the World”

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• I want to make my own life a masterpiece.

  Benito Mussolini

  Want, My Own, My Own Life

  "ITALY: Duce (1922-43)". content.time.com. August 2, 1943.

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• While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw--that of outright unreadability.

  Martin Amis

  Suffering, Serious, Flaws

  Martin Amis (2001). “The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000”, Vintage

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• Exhibitions of minority art are often intended to make the minority itself more aware of its collective experience. Reinforcing the common memory of miseries and triumphs will, it is expected, strengthen the unity of the group and its determination to achieve a better future. But emphasizing shared experience as opposed to the artist's consciousness of self (which includes his personal and unshared experience of masterpieces) brings to the fore the tension in the individual artist between being an artist and being a minority artist.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Art, Determination, Memories

  "Art and Other Serious Matters". Book by Harold Rosenberg. Chapter: "Being Outside", p. 273, 1985.

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• A disciple asked, "Who is a Master?" The Master replied, "Anyone to whom it is given to let go of the ego. Such a person's life is then a masterpiece.

  Anthony de Mello

  Letting Go, Ego, Life Is

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• The book is a form in which some of the greatest masterpieces that mankind has ever achieved are expressed.

  David Gelernter

  Book, Form, Mankind

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Home, Night, Auctions

  1989 On quick-turnover profits on his work. In the NewYork Times,10 May.

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• Under the microscope, I found that snowflakes were miracles of beauty; and it seemed a shame that this beauty should not be seen and appreciated by others. Every crystal was a masterpiece of design and no one design was ever repeated., When a snowflake melted, that design was forever lost. Just that much beauty was gone, without leaving any record behind.

  Wilson Bentley

  Design, Miracle, Forever

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• Horror hostess, bondage goddess, Charles Addams cartoon comes to life, Vampire was every first-generation fanboy's wet dream. Scott Poole takes us on an unforgettable ride through the overlapping underworlds of B&D magazines, Hollywood noir, and early political liberation movements that inspired actress Maila Nurmi to challenge a postwar culture bent on stifling women's choices, bodies, and desires. This book is a subversive masterpiece.

  Sheri Holman

  Dream, Book, Political

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• Susan Bordo’s Unbearable Weight is a masterpiece of complex an nuanced thinking not only about a significant problem that faces women but about our culture. A very valuable book.

  Susan Griffin

  Book, Thinking, Unbearable

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• Just two words: a masterpiece.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Yankees, Two, New York Yankees

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• The Phantom Menace is not a masterpiece, but it's an example of how imagination, craftsmanship, and technological bravura can fashion superior entertainment out of something that is far from flawless.

  James Berardinelli

  Fashion, Imagination, Entertainment

  "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999)". A movie review at www.reelviews.net,

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• Praxiteles borrowed the better elements of a hundred imperfect models in order to create a masterpiece.

  Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre

  Order, Elements, Imperfect

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• At one point Trudeau mentioned to me that the National Gallery wanted to buy a masterpiece by the great Italian painter Lotto, and it needed a million dollars from the Treasury Board. "Is that Lotto-Quebec or Lotto-Canada?" I joked, but I got the message, and the National Gallery got the painting.

  Jean Chretien

  Italian, Dollars, Boards

  "Straight From The Heart". Book by Jean Chrétien, 1985.

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• Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him.

  Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

  Men, Deceit, Ashamed

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• I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that Sound if erratic is still my greatest pride, because I would rather write like a dancer shaking my ass to boogaloo inside my head, and perhaps reach only readers who like to use books to shake their asses, than to be or write for the man cloistered in a closet somewhere reading Aeschylus while this stupefying world careens crazily past his waxy windows toward its last raving sooty feedback pirouette.

  Lester Bangs

  Reading, Book, Writing

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• 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?

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Ballet, Brows

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• Erudite and entertaining, Max Anderson is the perfect tour guide to the world of art. The Quality Instinct is both educational and enlightening from start to finish, the thinking person's guide to museums. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to truly understand what makes a masterpiece.

  Daniel Silva

  Art, Educational, Thinking

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• A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form; so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Curiosity, May

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1342, Delphi Classics

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• Beethoven concertos ... Tchaicovsky concertos ... with a lot of these wonderful masterpieces there's always something wonderful to find ... there's always something new to find.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Music, Wonderful, Something New

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• For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words in cadence, each beckoned and shined and breathed into place, each moving in well-tried harmony of tone and texture and meaning with its neighbors, molding an almost living being so faithful to observable truth, so expressive of the mass of humanity and so aglow with the beauty of just proportions that the reader feels a chill in his legs or a catch in his throat.

  James Emanuel

  Moving, Land, Perfect

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• A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.

  Anatole France

  Adventure, Men, Criticism

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• Leaders don't rise to the pinnacle of success without developing the right set of attitudes and habits; they make every day a masterpiece.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Leadership, Attitude

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• I have gotten everything from a one-page letter written in pencil to a 50-page computer generated masterpiece.

  Ron Pearson

  Technology, Letters, Pages

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