masterpiece

is not a single and solitary birth... it is the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births... they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

is nothing other than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.

Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.

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

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.

is never a masterpiece when released. It becomes one.

a book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. genius is the talent of a dead man. carl sandburg

is the latest opus by a commercially successful author or filmmaker, especially as proclaimed by shrewd reviewers who like to see themselves quoted in national ad campaigns.

The latest opus by a commercially successful author or filmmaker, esp. as proclaimed by shrewd reviewers who like to see themselves quoted in national ad campaigns.

masterpiece, n.All

masterpiece