Synonyms for
Masterpiece
Definition
A masterpiece is a work of art that is considered to be the best or most important thing that someone has created.
Synonyms & similar words
Synonyms by register
Informal
Literary
Antonyms
Common collocations
- a true masterpiece
- a culinary masterpiece
- an artistic masterpiece
- his greatest masterpiece
- a masterpiece of design
- a masterpiece of engineering
- a literary masterpiece
Word family
Usage note
Often used to describe a work of exceptional skill and artistry. While 'masterpiece' is a noun, the verb 'master' and adjective 'masterful' are related and convey a similar sense of high achievement.
Example sentences
- The artist spent months creating his masterpiece.
- The book she wrote was a masterpiece of storytelling.
- The movie was considered a masterpiece by critics.
- The sculpture was a masterpiece of modern art.
- The building was a masterpiece of architecture.
Quotes
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man. Distinction and merit will arise from the multiplicity of cooperators, and not from the exertions of individuals; a nation cannot be free and insignificant, nor free and artistically barren; the greater the artist, the greater the man who bows to the laws of beauty and order; a masterpiece is a matter of luck, merely a matter of luck. All great art is delicate and simple.
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience. The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before. A great artist is always before his time or behind it. Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them. A work of art is a scream of freedom.
Every artist was first an amateur. To be an artist is to believe in life. We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents. Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. Art is the proper task of life. Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.