A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is no denying the aesthetics of a well-made, well-loved book.
No one wants a masterpiece knocking around when your own book is looking for attention.
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
Something that I've always been. Always lively. I don't want to be dull.
Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.
Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved.
Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.