Quotes About Appreciation

People do stop me and talk to me about something they saw that they loved. It is very satisfying, but I have my own opinions.

I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me.

Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

Nowadays, people read too many books to appreciate any.

Never love anybody who treats you like you're ordinary.

You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.

Si no podéis disfrutar leyendo un libro repetidas veces, de nada sirve leerlo ni una sola vez.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

The drawback of stealing a thing, is that one never knows how wonderful the thing that one steals is.

To tell people what to read is, as a rule, either useless or harmful; for the appreciation of literature is a question of temperament not of teaching; to Parnassus there is no primer and nothing that one can learn is ever worth learning.

We all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

Yet the roses are not less lovely for all that.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. OSCAR WILDE

Anything approaching an explanation is always derogatory to a work of art.

I have simply worshipped pianists - two at a time, sometimes, Harry tells me. I don't know what it is about them. Perhaps it is that they are foreigners. They all are, ain't they? Even those that are born in England become foreigners after a time, don't they? It is so clever of them, and such a compliment to art.

The only beautiful things, as somebody once said, are the things that do not concern us. As long as a thing is useful or necessary to us...it is outside the proper sphere of art.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

Better to take pleasure in a rose than to put its root under a microscope.

I hate people who are not serious about meals.  It is so shallow of them.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these, there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.

making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

If you wish me to never look at your picture again, I am content. I have always you to look at. If you wish the best work I have ever done to be hidden from the world, I am satisfied. Your friendship is dearer to me than any fame or reputation.

We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbour with the possession of those virtues that are likely to be a benefit to us.