#masterpiece

An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#becomes #canvas #glamorous #masterpiece #uninspiring

All TV can do is capture the spirit of a book because the medium is so utterly different. But I'm very grateful for the readers that Masterpiece Theatre has undoubtedly brought me. ↗

— Joanna Trollope

#book #brought #capture #different #grateful

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#effect #make #masterpieces #me #otherwise

You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power, in simple ways. You’ll sit forever, gluing things together, Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps, Blowing on a miserable fire, Made from your heap of dying ash. Let apes and children praise your art, If their admiration’s to your taste, But you’ll never speak from heart to heart, Unless it rises up from your heart’s space. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#art #idolatry #individuality #legacy #love

One thing I’ve learned about art is that, it’s not perfect. It doesn’t have to be a flawless masterpiece. I’m not perfect, we’re not perfect… but right here, right now… is perfect. It’s a masterpiece. ↗

— Jac Prescott

#ashley-chunell #jac-prescott #masterpiece #quote #art

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#footnotes #masterpiece #obscure #series #unfinished

Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist--a master--and that is what Auguste Rodin was--can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is . . . and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be . . . and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#masterpiece #vision #art

A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#masterpiece #may #never #unwelcome

The smallest feline is a masterpiece. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#masterpiece #smallest

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