My brother Max made my desk. It's a masterpiece, like a piano. Everybody who comes in my office loves my desk.
I own a copy of the original 'Talking Heads' by Alan Bennett, which I purchased many years ago shortly after they were first broadcast. It's been lovingly well-thumbed over the years. They are magnificent. A masterpiece.
An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.
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.
I actually went back and watched all of 'True Detective''s Season One again, which I think is a true masterpiece.