Quotes About Appreciation

I don't think the world is particularly responsive to - our world, the culture we are in, to art right now.

The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.

Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation.

My house, my house, though thou art small, Thou art to me the Escurial.

I really do appreciate the awareness and the hype that the fans are creating. I, myself, have become totally addicted to checking out the fan art.

All the arts are based on the senses. What they do for the person who practices them, and also the persons interested in them, is make that particular sense more active and more acute.

My art has gained some high value.

I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.

I think it's very important for Arts Ministers to purchase art, to attend art, to validate art.

It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Without art; without paintings, books, sculpture and music, the human soul would be quite impenetrable, don't you think?

One important thing, just being a film composer in general, is to have a great respect for the art that you're working on - a great respect for the film and a great respect for the filmmakers.

Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.

I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.

There's that saying, "I don't know art, but I know what I like." The inverse is kind of true. I know art, but I don't know what I like. You get so immersed in it that nothing appeals to you.

There's art that I would readily buy if I could afford it, and enjoy, but would never write about because it doesn't seem significant.

In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.

Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones.

And I saw Australia anew through her eyes. And I realised what a tremendously thrilling country it was. And ever since then I have been coming back regularly.

I collect a lot of art.

The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side

There was an art to the male posterior. That's all there was to it.