Quotes About Appreciation

Being critical of art is a way of showing art respect.

Art is good but it isn't the best.

If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.

But of works of art little can be said.

There's an audience for all kinds of great art.

Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects.

The art isn't there to be purchased - it's there to be enjoyed.

I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.

When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.

I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way.

For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and famous, or dead.

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

The art of appreciation begins with self appreciation.

Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp

If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I'm on your team.

We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts.

I buy some art but I don't like to talk about it.

I feel like really thinking about art and really appreciating it and learning the language of it just makes you more of a connoisseur. I believe that.

Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.

We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat when we really mean he is outstanding.

One of my favorite things about art, especially at a gallery, is hearing people talk about the art. I find it quite amusing.

As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.

Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.