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• The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Life, Humanity

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• Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

  Andre Breton

  Wise, Art, Nature

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• Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Life, Time, Writing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

  Victor Hugo

  Halloween, Greatness, Mountain

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6986, Delphi Classics

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• I couldn't be happier about being a part of ‘Hunger Games’ and to play Katniss. I have a huge responsibility to the fans of this incredible book and I don’t take it lightly. I will give everything I have to these movies and to this role to make it worthy of Suzanne Collins’ masterpiece.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Book, Responsibility, Games

  "Jennifer Lawrence talks 'The Hunger Games' - and her love of Peeta" by Karen Valby, ew.com. March 18, 2011.

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• The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

  Cyril Connolly

  Tasks, Literature, Produce

  Cyril Connolly, Peter Quennell (1984). “The selected essays of Cyril Connolly”

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• Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.

  Ernie Pyle

  Dark, Bridges, Shadow

  Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone

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• The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.

  William Westmoreland

  Military, Names, Memorial

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• Like music or art, mathematical equations can have a natural progression and logic that can evoke rare passions in a scientist. Although the lay public considers mathematical equations to be rather opaque, to a scientist an equation is very much like a movement in a larger symphony. Simplicity. Elegance. These are the qualities that have inspired some of the greatest artists to create their masterpieces, and they are precisely the same qualities that motivate scientists to search for the laws of nature. LIke a work of art or a haunting poem, equations have a beauty and rhythm all their own.

  Michio Kaku

  Art, Passion, Mathematical Equations

  Michio Kaku (1995). “Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension”, p.130, Oxford University Press, USA

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• An artist's life is supposed to lead toward his masterpiece, not away from it.

  John Thomas Sladek

  Art, Artist, Life Is

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• A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Relationship, Patience

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Friendship'.

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• You are a masterpiece of creation.

  Denis Waitley

  Creation

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• Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.

  Pope John Paul II

  Art, Men, Tasks

  Letter to artists, w2.vatican.va. April 04, 1999.

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• The art of achievement is the art of making life - your life - a masterpiece.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Art, Achievement, Brush Strokes

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• The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Family, Brother

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.23, MIT Press

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• A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Fiction, World, Fit

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lectures on Don Quixote”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.

  William Shakespeare

  Confused, Confusion, Emotion

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [72]

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• Masterpieces are only lucky attempts.

  George Sand

  Lucky

  George Sand (1930). “The Country Waif”, p.22, U of Nebraska Press

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• Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you’re just stretching your soul.

  Maya Angelou

  Art, Soul, Trying

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  Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Perfect, Together, Ashes

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• 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 (2015). “A Room of One's Own (Annotated)”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term "masterpiece" to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to convey a notion of perfection: a notion that leads to much confusion when applied to artists other than those who made perfection their ideal.

  Andre Malraux

  Artist, Qualms About, Confusion

  "The Voices of Silence". Book by Andre Malraux, Doubleday, Part III, Chapter VI, 1953.

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• Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art. The work of art is always based on the two poles of the onlooker and the maker, and the spark that comes from the bipolar action gives birth to something - like electricity. But the onlooker has the last word, and it is always posterity that makes the masterpiece. The artist should not concern himself with this, because it has nothing to do with him.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Art, Two, Giving

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• Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.

  Marcel Proust

  Mind, Great Minds, Flotsam

  Marcel Proust (1958). “By Way of Sainte-Beuve: (Contre Sainte-Beuve)”

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• Art, in the widest sense of the word, is the instrument Hellenism has used and would use for that purpose. All the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visual arts, the theatre, must work singly and together to create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, the free man.

  Bernard Berenson

  Art, Men, Together

  "Aesthetics and History in the Visual Arts".

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