Quotes About Masterpieces

There are no great scripts - just great films.

The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.

La Strada, Yojimbo, Ikiru, The Bridge, Rififi, Bicycle Thieves, Rocco and His Brothers, Open City, Seven Samurai, Le Doulos, Bitter Rice (which Cliff thought was sexy as hell).

At the time that they were shown, the Brillo Boxes were underappreciated. It's only now, with the patina of history, that we can really see these masterpieces in a clear light.

INDISPENSABLE BOOKS Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Shakespeare and Goethe.

I say--I've thought of a good plot for a detective story. Really? Top--hole. You know, the sort that people bring out and say 'I've often thought of doing it myself, if only I could find time to sit down and write it.' I gather that sitting down is all that is necessary for producing masterpieces.

In the history of photography, we have many masterpieces in terms of black and white books. You have Bresson's 'Decisive Moment,' Frank's 'The Americans'... many masterpieces. But there is nothing to this caliber in color. Well, I think I'll waltz with my muse and hope that I might be able to produce something on this order in color.

A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.

You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods.

Mozart makes you believe in God because it cannot be by chance that such a phenomenon arrives into this world and leaves such an unbounded number of unparalleled masterpieces.

I was created by the all powerful God to fill the universe with my masterpieces.

I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.

The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity.

Humans are...extraordinary. It's a shame that we often forget that, and that we treat each other as anything less than the masterpieces we are.

She once complained that her stories were like 'birds bred in cages,' but that concentrated atmosphere, that claustrophobic hothouse of emotion, was her talent. Her stories were little masterpieces of compression: she succinctly contained whole lifetimes in a few pages, every moment loaded with as much as it could bear.

I'm a big fan of 'Deadpool,' and Rob Liefeld masterpieces are among the other great comic creators and characters.

the adventure of the soul among the masterpieces.

We music fans love our classic albums, our seamless masterpieces, our Blonde on Blondes and our Talking Books. But we love to pluck songs off those albums and mix them up with other songs, plunging them back into the rest of the manic slipstream of rock and roll.

Masterpieces should be kept for High Holidays of the Spirit"—for our own personal Christmases and Easters, not for any old Wednesday.

The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States it is arguably the finest anywhere.

Look here, old fellow, do you realize this has been the greatest meeting of artists since the fifteenth century?

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.

It was my great good fortune, while I was still a student at college, to have possessed a copy of an English translation of his great work 'The Sensations of Tone.' As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz's masterpieces.

If I could see and really understand the essence of the life that is right around me I could with even such technique as I now command make masterpieces.