#masterpiece

The clothes you're wearing, the room, the house, the city that you're in. Everything in it started out in the human imagination. Your lives, your personalities, your whole world. All invented. All made up. All the wars, the romances. The masterpieces and the machines. And there's nothing here but a funny little twist of amino acids, playing a marvelous game of pretend. ↗

— Alan Moore

#cities #clothes #houses #life #machines

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

— Gertrude Stein

#masterpiece #may #never #unwelcome

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. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#becomes #books #clearer #consequence #function

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

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

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#creation #determinism #evidence #free #free will

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? ↗

— Dwight L. Moody

#cannot #capable #child #children #christ

I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#am #changed #confidence #could #criticism

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

#engineering #foot #human #masterpiece #work

Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece. ↗

— Maurice Jarre

#assumes #bad #become #change #executive