#masterpiece

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

— William Westmoreland

#dead #just #listed #masterpiece #memorial

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day. ↗

— John Wooden

#against #art #be true #bible #blessings

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#complete #finished #masterpiece #mind #once

I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#books #carry #case #cassettes #down

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

— Andre Gide

#been #begins #created #ever #great

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. It's like watching a masterpiece. ↗

— Cuba Gooding, Jr.

#bring #creative #creative input #director #editing

Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists. ↗

— Jack Herer

#creative #irreverent #many #masterpieces #most

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

#admire #appalling #assembly #easy #everything

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

— Cyril Connolly

#consequence #function #masterpiece #other #produce

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces. ↗

— Anatole France

#among #critic #good #his #masterpieces