Quotes About Appreciation

I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it, but that does not make any difference, she will, he said.

I've learnt so much from every film and every director - a new perspective, a greater appreciation of the art.

The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.

When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.

Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that.

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable.

Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.

The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

What has pleased and continues to please, is likely to please again; hence are derived the rules of art, and on this immovable foundation they must ever stand.

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something that I appreciate and really like.

I never buy a piece of art. I don't see the point in buying something because I know my eyes will get bored of it eventually.

Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.

Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.

Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.

If a woman decides she likes me, it would behoove her to take into consideration that my art has had a strong influence on the type of person I am.

I regularly find myself waking up to art I passed by or simply ignored.

If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many.

The most important person is the audience and the composer. The rest of us - and even the composer is a servant to the audience. And of course, the audience is a servant to the higher art.

Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.

The public buys "art" - but the word is drained of its meaning.