Quotes About Appreciation

Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts . . .

The presence of excessive wealth puts an unnatural spin on the appreciation of art.

Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers.

I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.

Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader.

Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.

Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.

It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?

There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.

Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.

Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.

I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art.

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

I think, if one is a true art lover, he can't stick to a particular genre. Art knows no partitions, no boundaries.

Judging art is like caging a bird. Instead of seeing it soar, you can only watch it flutter.

A painting is worth a thousand confused art-gallery visitors.

Each creature is a unique piece of art to be respected and believed in. once we realise this, equality follows.

I'm pretty much looking for beauty all the time. It just seems like some days the light is better to see it.

...What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the artist, on his own, to create them.

But maybe that's how it is with art. You suffer, and in the end, everyone thinks it's cool.

If you judge art by its cover, you efface the very essence of it

The value is not in the art, whether there are more artists or less artists, the value depends on it.

Art is the greatest opportunity to admire the human mind!

I often come across this question. "Which is the best camera in the world?". I would always say, "Well. You already own two of it, since your birth.