Noun
Anything done or made with extraordinary skill; a capital performance; a chef-d'oeuvre; a supreme achievement.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhen love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. John Ruskin
The greatest masterpiece of literature is only a dictionary out of order. Jean Cocteau
He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world. Arthur Miller
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. André Gide
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. Arthur Schopenhauer
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