Timeless Masterpiece Quotes

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

Shakespeare belongs to the whole of mankind, not just one country.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back.

Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future ... eternal beauty.

A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.

'Magadheera' is a lovely film which can't be recreated.

The first album is a classic record and I think the prototype of a sound that no one else does.

Having a movie that lasts and makes your image imprinted into the history of cinema, it's very positive.

I wish I could have been in the control room at Capitol Studio A listening to the playback of 'Wichita Lineman' the first time it came into the atmosphere. It must have been a perfect moment in time.

'The Great Gatsby,' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, remains the most perfect novel that has ever come out of the United States. Everything in the book moves as it should, in the manner of a piece by Bach or Mozart.

Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.

Certainly the highest posthumous praise that can be conferred upon any writer is the assertion that his or her writing permanently altered the literary landscape for the better, opening new textual doors and engaging new readers. That the author's oeuvre was essential and irreplaceable and transformative.

When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it lie down for an aeon or two, Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew!

One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away.

Shakespeare is a seminal story-teller. I don't think he imagined he was writing classics or that he was writing great poetry. I don't think he dreamt his work would be staged 400 years after he died.