Quotes About Appreciation

We are surrounded every day by people who do thankless but important work.

Show respect for everyone who works for a living, regardless of how trivial their job.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

I come to work with a smile and I leave with a laugh, and I'm so grateful.

Men of genius are far more abundant than is supposed. In fact, to appreciate thoroughly the work of what we call genius, is to possess all the genius by which the work was produced.

I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract.

In a mouse we admire God's creation and craft work. The same may be said about flies.

I see a lot of people who love their jobs. I see some garbage collectors smiling as they go about their work.

Meeting and talking to the artist adds a special element to collecting contemporary art that makes the work an irreplaceable treasure rather than just another possession.

My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.

The person viewing your work has no idea what the scene really looked like, nor do they care.

I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.

You always want your work to be seen as long as it's good.

It took me years and years of trial efforts to work out that there is absolutely no knitting triumph I can achieve that my husband will think is worth being woken up for.

All of the directors I've worked with I have loved and would work with again. I have no favorites.

I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.

If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.

If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.

To appreciate a work of art, is it okay to like what you like, and the heck with the art critics and experts? Absolutely.

I've never seen a postcard of my work in a museum.

But I don't just see the movie when I see the movie, I see all the great people who worked on it and all their hard work, because they could not have worked any harder.

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

The miracle is that a work of art should live in the person who reads it.

You know, I'm going to start thanking the woman who cleans the restroom in the building I work in. I'm going to start thinking of her as a human being.