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.
I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the marketplace like they were masterpieces.
I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.
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.
The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.
I have a pesky little critic in the back of my mind. He's a permanent fixture and passes judgment on everything I write. In order to placate him, especially when I'm endeavoring to write anything as ambitious as a novel, I have to constantly mutter, ...
The laws of physics is the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece
Both of you are threads in a carefully woven masterpiece of a blanket that is life. Parts of you are weaved into parts of him. There's no changing that.
Life is the ultimate artistic masterpiece, and it's up to you, the creator, to make it as wildly dazzling as possible.
...Michelangelo transformed both the practice of art and our conception of the artist's role in society.
Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!
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.
Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed 'Dr. Strangelove' as a black comedy. The film is routinely described as a masterpiece.
You are a miracle, you are a light. You are not made of our weaknesses but of your strengths. You are a masterpiece made by The Master. Don't see yourself less!
Don't keep your Muse locked up in the closet. Set them free to dance across the page and what they create will be a masterpiece.
You can't be creative without criticism. If your life is without critics then maybe you are painting your life's masterpiece with only a broken brown crayon.
The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.
I challenge you to make your life the masterpiece you want to paint, the novel you want to read, the day you want to wake to.
Playing the cello did feel nicely neolithic, or at least a civilized way to process the primitive.
