Definition of Masterpiece

Masterpiece

Anything done or made with extraordinary skill; a capital performance; a chef-d'oeuvre; a supreme achievement.

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Achievement, Anything, Capital, Done, Extraordinary, Made, Or, Performance, Skill, Supreme, With

Masterpiece Quotations

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
Tony Robbins

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
Leonardo da Vinci

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
Leonardo da Vinci

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Arthur Schopenhauer

A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
Gertrude Stein

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

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

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
Virginia Woolf

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.
Denis Waitley

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.
Vladimir Nabokov

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

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
John Donne

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

He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.
Arthur Miller

To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved.
Andre Malraux

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
Andre Breton

I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
Andre Gide

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

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
Cyril Connolly

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Carl Sandburg

Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece.
Steve Buscemi

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

I couldn't be happier about being a part of 'Hunger Games' and to play Katniss. I have a huge responsibility to the fans of this incredible book and I don't take it lightly. I will give everything I have to these movies and to this role to make it worthy of Suzanne Collins' masterpiece.
Jennifer Lawrence

The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.
William Westmoreland

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

For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them.
Tom Glazer

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Masterpiece Translations

masterpiece in Italian is capo lavoro
masterpiece in Spanish is obra maestra

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