#masterpiece

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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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

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

— Anatole France

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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

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The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Carl Sandburg

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An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist. ↗

— Arthur Smith

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Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece. ↗

— Nadia Boulanger

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If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed. ↗

— Alfred Brendel

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