Quotes About Appraisal

It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

Man know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. -Oscar Wilde

Mr. Chester, standing near the door with Ann, eyed the assemblage with the genial contempt of a large dog for a voluble pack of small ones.

For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you."12

Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected.

Tried to assess the situation.

I took my car down to see what I could get for it on a trade-in. The dealer took a look at it and offered me a ballpoint pen.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

As for faces - you may look into them to know, whether a man's nose be a long or a short one.

When did anybody ever sell anything without being told immediately after the sale, 'It was worth much more'? But when one wants to sell, no one will give anything….

When I taught, the way in which we got evaluated is what I used to call the drive-by evaluation. Somebody would come in for 20 minutes with a checklist, and that would be your evaluation. So it was clearly a snapshot.

If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don't have price tags begin to look like they have no value.

Value-first is a perception. If your customer does not perceive it as value, then it's not very valuable.

A critic often has to play the role of coroner, dissecting a work to find out why it died (or never lived).

CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.

You're happy that people are seeing your work. As for the critics, it really hurts when they knock you.

If you look at our world, it's a world of critique.

When any part of your body is sick or in pain, your mind is able to stand outside of the pain and appraise it. But when your mind is the problem, your very means of perception is amiss.

Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses.

In the art world, Monet means money.

Everybody's an art critic.

Art critics are like every other critic.

I don't," he said, "and that's a fact. I just can't size them up at all. This Mrs. Jorgensen, now, what is she?" "A blonde.

He stood beside the fireplace and looked at her with eyes that studied, weighed, judged her without pretense that they were not studying, weighing, judging her.