Quotes About Appreciation

I guess art is in the eye of the beholder.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Art that imposes conditions - human or otherwise - on the receiver for its appreciation in my eyes constitutes aesthetic fascism.

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

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.

You're supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you're not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

Whatever art is, it is no longer something primarily to be looked at. Stared at, perhaps, but not primarily looked at

I have a large number of enthusiastic admirers of my art. And they all sing a hymn in praise from the bottom of their hearts for my art.

An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.

The only thing that is not art is inattention

Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.

"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist."

The purpose of art is delectation.

The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament.

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.

We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change us.

You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.

When we are moved by art we are grateful that the artist lived, grateful that he labored in the service of his gifts.

If you're mad at someone for being excited and inspired by your art then you're doing it wrong.