Quotes About Preference

I know what I like—I like art—and I like what I know.

I don't get into 'becauses.' When you come into a studio you see a number of works. My habit is to go to the one I like most. If you start to say, 'because,' you get into art jargon.

The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.

I do think that there's art that is tortured, but I prefer art that has the joy in it.

He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.

Art is art. You can take it or leave it. Liking it or not liking it does not make you a better person, and who you like or dislike results in the same thing.

As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.

If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.

Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the contemplation of Careers to art of any kind.

I actually prefer female voices to listen to, mostly, but among the male singers whose voices I like are Jeff Buckley, Art Garfunkel, that sort of voice. Contemporary crooners rather than rockers.

Wall-to-wall masterpieces, after all, ought to be preferred to wall-to-wall decorative arts, even if the decorative arts are of the highest quality peppered and salted with dukes and tiaras.

There's that saying, "I don't know art, but I know what I like." The inverse is kind of true. I know art, but I don't know what I like. You get so immersed in it that nothing appeals to you.

There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory.

I'm not a film snob at all. I much prefer a really good Hollywood blockbuster than a thought-provoking art house movie because entertainment is sort of where it's at.

One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it.

The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.

Art Deco for me except in its most crazed and attenuated forms, it's jut a matter of taste.

Art is the expression of an enormous preference.

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.

Having a matrix of preferences presented as your essence, as the whole you? Maybe that was it. It was some kind of mirror, but it was incomplete, distorted.

She'd heard that the author Margaret Mitchell had never lived in a place with more than one bedroom for a simple reason: She had never wanted houseguests.

They're both black. I don't like to cut perfectly fine coffee with cream or sugar.

preferred entering through the front.