“The public will accept a masterpiece, but it will not accept an attempt to write a masterpiece.”

“Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.”

“Of all those arts in which the wise excel,
Nature’s chief masterpiece is writing well.”

“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.”

“The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature. ”

“I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.”

“Make every day your masterpiece.”

“Today is yours to shape. Create a masterpiece!”

“Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece.”

“The enormous and half-educated publics of present-day England and America… acclaim as masterpieces books that are soon forgotten, while ignoring all that is exquisite and rare.”