#masterpieces

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

— Sidney Lumet

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

— Anatole France

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It was funny the way memory obliged the heart. His happy recollections were always afloat in his soupy subconscious where so many of his darker memories had sunk to the underbelly of his past and been as good as lost forever. But without conscious instruction, memory had edited and enlarged the finest moments of his life and stored them like masterpieces in the private gallery of his personal history. ↗

— Nanci Kincaid

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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 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

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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

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

— Maurice Sendak

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