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21 " I saw sadness when I looked at what was left of them. The demigods who had once controlled the heavens had been brought low, humbled to the point of death. I always imagined I heart their crumbled masterpieces singing an endless mourning dirge. I turned, looking at the wild grass shivering across the plateau. " I see only reminders that nothing lasts forever, not even greatness." " Some things last." I faced him. " Really? And just what would that be?" " The things that matter. "
22 " Life is like a painting. Imagine it, hit and try drawing with the pencil of first steps, fill in the colors of happiness, correct the mistakes with eraser of love and forgiveness; thus, one dream project is accomplished. Create such masterpieces just like that. "
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma , You By You
23 " Jo told me once that she was an old woman everywhere but in her studio. “There I’m only myself,” she’d said. Standing in the middle of masterpieces that only Jo had ever seen and touched, I knew what she meant. "
― Laura Anderson Kurk , Perfect Glass
24 " To write only according to the rules laid down by masterpieces signifies that one is not a master but a pupil. "
― David Shields , Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
25 " 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. "
― , Eat, Drink, and Be From Mississippi
26 " They should own who can administer, not they who hoard and conceal; not they who, the greater proprietors they are, are only the greater beggars, but they whose work carves out work for more, opens a path for all. For he is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give all access to the masterpieces of art and nature is the problem of civilization. "
― Ralph Waldo Emerson , Conduct of Life: A Philosophical Reading
27 " I see now that dismissing YA books because you’re not a young adult is a little bit like refusing to watch thrillers on the grounds that you’re not a policeman or a dangerous criminal, and as a consequence, I’ve discovered a previously ignored room at the back of the bookstore that’s filled with masterpieces I’ve never heard of. "
― Nick Hornby
28 " All we can do is write, but its up to the reader to decide if we wrote masterpieces or empty silliness, and there is nothing you can do till another reader says different. "
― Uma Nnenna
29 " 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. "
30 " My life, my soul is anything but finished hence it is not perfect. Only masterpieces are finished and could be considered perfect. So unless you are a " David" or a " Requiem" or perhaps a " Mona Lisa" you are not perfect. We'll be prone to errors and we will make mistakes. But at least these allow us to become something closer to perfection. "
31 " My life, my soul is anything but finished hence it is not perfect. Only masterpieces are finished and could be considered perfect. So unless you are a " David" or a " Requiem" or perhaps a " Mona Lisa" you and I are not perfect. We'll be prone to errors and we will make mistakes. But at least these allow us to become something closer to perfection. "
32 " It was the quartets of Beethoven (numbers 12,13,14, and 15) which over fifty years, created and expanded the the audience of listeners to the quartets of Beethoven, thus achieving, as all masterpieces do, progress if not in the quality of artists, at least in the company of minds, which is largely composed these days of what was missing when the work appeared: people capable of liking it. "
― Marcel Proust , In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
33 " All I care for is the inclusion of my name in the list of the believers of the supremacy of human soul over all other masterpieces He has ever produced. "
― Annie Ali
34 " We should comport ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages - stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us. "
35 " The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette. "
36 " The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. "