Masterpiece Quotes - Page 18

• My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies - is Christian Marclay's endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece 'The Clock.'

  Jerry Saltz

  Movie, Christian, Years

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• An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.

  Arthur Smith

  Artist, Canvas, Glamorous

  "Old masters and new friends" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2003.

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• The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

  Voltaire

  Fighting, History, Architecture

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• The female body is a masterpiece. Everyone likes to look at the female body, especially in dynamic, athletic sport.

  Natalie Cook

  Sports, London Olympics, Athletic

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• To change your mind under the direction of the wisdom of the heart is a brush stroke on the masterpiece you are delivering to the world.

  Alan Cohen

  Heart, Mind, World

  Alan Cohen (2000). “Dare to Be Yourself”

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• The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution.

  Tracy Chevalier

  Motivation, Inspiration, Painting

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• Yes, I saw Twilight - my granddaughter made me watch it, she said it was the greatest vampire film ever. After the 'film' was over I wanted to smack her across her head with my shoe, but I do not want a (tell-all) book called Grannie Dearest written on me when I die. So instead I gave her a DVD of Murnau's 1922 masterpiece Nosferatu and told her, 'Now that's a vampire film!' And that goes for all of you! Watch Nosferatu instead!

  Lauren Bacall

  Book, Twilight, Dvds

  "Bacall Blasts Twilight Vampires" by wenn.com, August 26, 2009.

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• The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of marble and God is the sculptor, and the chisel is.... everything.

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Block, Inspiration

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• Everybody has a part of her body that she doesn't like, but I've stopped complaining about mine because I don't want to critique nature's handiwork ... My job is simply to allow the light to shine out of the masterpiece.

  Alfre Woodard

  Inspiring, Jobs, Light

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• There is a movie called “Fargo” playing right now. It is a masterpiece. Go see it. If you, under any circumstances, see “Little Indian, Big City,” I will never let you read one of my reviews again.

  Roger Ebert

  Cities, Littles, Fargo

  "Little Indian, Big City" by Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. March 22, 1996.

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• If you want to create a masterpiece, you must always avoid beautiful lies.

  Jerzy Grotowski

  Beautiful, Lying, Want

  Jerzy Grotowski (2012). “Towards a Poor Theatre”, p.236, Routledge

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• If you, unknowing, are able to create masterpieces in color, then unknowledge is your way. But if you are unable to create masterpieces in color out of your unknowledge, then you ought to look for knowledge.

  Johannes Itten

  Color, Looks, Able

  Johannes Itten, Faber Birren (1970). “The Elements of Color”, p.7, John Wiley & Sons

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• Watch a French housewife as she makes her way slowly along the loaded stalls... searching for the peak of ripeness and flavor... What you are seeing is a true artist at work, patiently assembling all the materials of her craft, just as the painter squeezes oil colors onto his palette ready to create a masterpiece.

  Keith Floyd

  Patience, Art, Food

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• Teaching creativity to your child isn't like teaching good manners. No one can paint a masterpiece by bowing to another person's precepts about elbows on the table.

  Gurney Williams

  Children, Teaching, Creativity

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• I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed.

  Tim Robbins

  Confidence, Thinking, Criticism

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• As an actor you have to bring to the table your creative input. But when a director like Ridley Scott says I want you to do this this way, you know when he gets to the editing room he has a reason for it. Its like watching a masterpiece.

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  Editing, Creative, Actors

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• I see now that dismissing YA books because you're not a young adult is a little bit like refusing to watch thrillers on the grounds that you're not a policeman or a dangerous criminal, and as a consequence, I've discovered a previously ignored room at the back of the bookstore that's filled with masterpieces I've never heard of.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Adults, Criminals

  Nick Hornby (2008). “Shakespeare Wrote for Money”, McSweeneys Books

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• Flowers are heaven's masterpiece.

  Dorothy Parker

  Nature, Flower, Heaven

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• 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.

  Rick Yancey

  Ears, Clay, Masters

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.128, Penguin

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• The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece.

  Dan Brown

  Law, Canvas, Physics

  "Angels & Demons".

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• A brilliant inquiry into the contemporary Iranian predicament and what it means for the world. At a time when all too many of our leading thinkers are mired in the weeds of provincialism and narrow ideological wars, Postel has written a work of grace, intelligence, and towering integrity. Reading 'Legitimation Crisis' in Tehran is nothing less than a masterpiece of moral and political criticism.

  Afshin Molavi

  Weed, War, Integrity

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• To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that is required for a clear view of the monstrous drama. The will-to-power operating under a pure democratic disguise has finished off its masterpiece so well that the object's sense of freedom is actually flattered by the most thorough-going enslavement that has ever existed.

  Oswald Spengler

  Drama, Views, Media

  "The Decline of the West (Volume II)". Book by Oswald Spengler, 1928.

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• In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a paragraph, capture the essence of a character in a single conversational exchange, or show us the gulf between his soulful heroine and her dull-witted husband in a sentence (and one that, moreover, presages all Emma's later experience of men). (...) This is one of the summits of prose art, and not to know such a masterpiece is to live a diminished life.

  Michael Dirda

  Art, Husband, Character

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• If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Sleep, Loss, Suffering

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• Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity?

  E. O. Wilson

  Looks, Environment, Biodiversity

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