#masterpiece

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

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The family is one of nature's masterpieces. ↗

— George Santayana

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You can't write masterpieces in your 80s and be happy too. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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When love is at the base of something, it is a masterpiece. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

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If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed. ↗

— Alfred Brendel

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

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago. ↗

— Arthur Machen

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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

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

— Voltaire

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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. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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