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

Politics is the only art whose artists regularly disown their masterpieces. — Raheel Farooq

I draw people as I see them. I'm not involved in making artistic masterpieces. My, my object is to mirror people and I've always done that. — Jack Kirby

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

Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces. — Alex Katz

Masterpieces are only lucky attempts. — George Sand

Composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations. — Ned Rorem

We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us. — Arthur Schopenhauer

When an artist works today or whenever, it's not about creating immortal masterpieces, because that's the one thing we don't decide ourselves. — Esa-Pekka Salonen

Some people write books, others paint masterpieces — Masterpieces From Brooklyn Museum

Freedom does not guarantee masterpieces. — E. M. Forster

Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last. — Oscar Wilde

Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces. — Marcel Proust

One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience. — William Safire

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out. — Oscar Wilde

There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away. — Malik Bendjelloul

Man is a marble piece; unlike Michelangelo's masterpieces, man is unconsciously carved and imperfectly shaped by the nature! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces. — Michel Hazanavicius

Bergman made countless masterpieces, but for one reason or another, 'Winter Light' stays closest to my heart. — Jake Paltrow

Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any. — Igor Stravinsky

The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth. — Thornton Wilder

The love of a father is one of nature's greatest masterpieces. — Helen Lowrie Marshall

Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces. — Karsten Harries

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames. — Rudolf Bing

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

The areas off the greens are masterpieces. I don't think there's anything like it in North America. — Ben Crenshaw

Somehow, conductor as this superhuman conduit between the masters and the masterpieces and the immortals. — Esa-Pekka Salonen

Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds. — Marcel Proust

I try to play, always, beautiful games ... always I wanted to create masterpieces. — Garry Kasparov

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

Some of the greatest masterpieces of art are created against the odds of reality.

from the book: stuff i think about — Sondra Faye

You can't write masterpieces in your 80s and be happy too. — Maurice Sendak

A great painter does not content himself by affecting us with his masterpieces; ultimately, he succeeds in changing the landscape of our minds. Once — Orhan Pamuk

The book is a form in which some of the greatest masterpieces that mankind has ever achieved are expressed; — David Gelernter

I don't read reviews about myself with any special eagerness or attention unless they are masterpieces of wit and acumen, and I never reread them. — Vladimir Nabokov

When we dream with God, we become the masterpieces of His imagination. — Bill Johnson

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs. — Manuel Puig

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces. — Anatole France

Creativity without commercialism will result in unseen masterpieces by unknown painters. — Shriram Iyer

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. — Marcel Proust

Masterpieces of beauty, craftsmanship, and stability, all erected — Robert Greene

To write only according to the rules laid down by masterpieces signifies that one is not a master but a pupil. — David Shields

The family is one of nature's masterpieces. — George Santayana

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

The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words. — Thornton Wilder

I was created by the all powerful God to fill the universe with my masterpieces. — El Greco

I was very embarrassed when my canvases began to fetch high prices. I saw myself condemned to a future of nothing but Masterpieces. — Henri Matisse

Your dreams are ink;
reality is the canvas;
Paint masterpieces. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Even when they are geniuses in spite of it, their masterpieces are invariably warped. — Christopher Isherwood

No stone was left unturned in the unearthing of musical masterpieces."
About Egg, Book 1 "Making it — Jamie Scallion

Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces. — Allegra Goodman

Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we're seeing is the negative side of nuclear war. — Barry Goldwater

For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident. — Sidney Lumet

Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson

A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces. — Anatole France

Humans are...extraordinary. It's a shame that we often forget that, and that we treat each other as anything less than the masterpieces we are. — Christina Daley

The adventure of the soul among the masterpieces. — Anatole France