Masterpiece Quotes

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

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

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

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

For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them.

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

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.