Mario Vargas Llosa
Novelist, Essayist
"The secret to a masterpiece is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration."
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Masterpiece
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Leonardo da Vinci
Artist, Scientist, Inventor
"The cat is nature's masterpiece."
Leonard Cohen
Singer-Songwriter
"You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece."
Michel de Montaigne
Philosopher, Writer
"Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately."
Leonardo da Vinci
Artist, Scientist, Inventor
"The smallest feline is a masterpiece."
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"Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing."
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"Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?"
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"Masterpieces are only lucky attempts."
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"A true masterpiece does not tell everything."
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"The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody."
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"The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order."
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"Woman is the masterpiece."
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"You are a masterpiece of creation."
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"Freedom does not guarantee masterpieces."
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"Man is Creation's masterpiece. But who says so?"
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"The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth."
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"Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece."
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"If you imagine my studio floor, you can just keep picking it up and getting masterpieces."
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"The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages."
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