#masterpieces

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

— Maurice Sendak

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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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We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames. ↗

— Rudolf Bing

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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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For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident. ↗

— Sidney Lumet

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Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#art-of-life #good-advice #inspirational #inspirational-quotes #life

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

— Anatole France

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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. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

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