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I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had very little chance of seeing any. (Emma Albani)
I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind... (Leon Battista Alberti)
You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux. (Darby Bannard)
Appreciation of works of art requires organized effort and systematic study. Art appreciation can no more be absorbed by aimless wandering in galleries than can surgery be learned by casual visits to a hospital. (Dr. Albert C. Barnes)
The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful, but it is always irrelevant. For to appreciate a work of art, we must bring with us nothing from life, no knowledge of its affairs and ideas, no familiarity with its emotions. (Clive Bell)
There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment. (Robert Brault)
To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
All common things, often taken for granted, may represent those values to which we all aspire. (Vittorio Canta)
Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love. (Raymond Chandler)
This was one of those special occasions when I could actually feel the inner appreciation of the beauty of the moment passing like an electric current through the brush in my hand. (Prince Charles)
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Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men. (Eugene Delacroix)
Appreciation is an education that comes along with arts and sciences. (Laurie DeMatteo)
Never take anything for granted. (Benjamin Disraeli)
Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything. (Bob Dylan)
No poet, no artist of any sort, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. (T. S. Eliot)
How many of us really appreciate the childishness of the unconscious mind? (Milton Erikson)
The painter's appreciation [for beauty] is more conscious, for he spends his life trying to communicate his feelings to others. (Emile Gruppe)
Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy. (Robert Henri)
The Sun will not rise or set without my notice and thanks. (Winslow Homer)
I feel that when I am painting, it is a form of worship. I see how wonderful nature is and how wonderful art is... and by trying to produce these works of art, I feel that I am just showing my appreciation of these creations. (E. J. Hughes)
Isn't it amazing how often we don't take time to truly appreciate something until we no longer have it?... It seems we get so caught up with "doing life" that we forget to stop and breathe into the moment and simply take stock of how good it is to be alive. (Dr. Dennis Merritt Jones)
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams. (Yann Martel)
As long as artists do not claim to have the sole answer to what-is-art, they should be appreciated strictly in terms of what they are seeking to do. (Pearl McCarthy)
Good painting is nothing else but a copy of the perfections of God and a reminder of His painting. Finally, good painting is a music and a melody which intellect only can appreciate, and with great difficulty. (Michelangelo)
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated. (Alexander Osborn)
You can't really appreciate a work of art until you can understand how difficult it was to create. And that's probably true of any work of art - a rock, a tree, a bird, a fish, a sunrise made of light and air. (Laurence Overmire)
Appreciation is the breath of life to the creative artist, and in spite of modern conditions, there is enough abroad to sustain him. But his name is now legion; he competes with the dead as well as the living; and the rewards and honours seem attenuated by division. (Walter J. Phillips)
Universal appreciation of art... belongs to those countries and those ages which are not, or were not, ruled by materialism. Though travel was never so easy, literature on art never so profuse, and works of art never so widely distributed, a real passion for pictures is encountered but rarely. (Walter J. Phillips)
All non-buyers of art can be downsized. (Bob Ragland)
I've learned... that just one person saying to me, 'You've made my day!' makes my day. (Andy Rooney)
Appreciating the clouds that hide the sun guarantees you inner sunlight. (William Carmen Soyak III)
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead. (Igor Stravinsky)
We usually evaluate creative process in terms of how much feeling or thinking was behind the work or how well the work was done. Isn't there any other way of appreciating the process? What if the standard of excellence was how fully present the artist was during the process? (Kazuaki Tanahashi)
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it. (William Makepeace Thackeray)
An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency. (Mark Twain)
Even the most unsophisticated observer will appreciate a landscape painting. Some theories relate this to our ancient veldt heritage millions of years ago when being aware of the lay of the land was important. (Luann Udell)
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was. (unknown)
Expect nothing, appreciate everything. (unknown)
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. (Voltaire)
Art appreciation - like character - is a highly personal thing. A posteriori, art collectors are often behaving like children. In that sense, there are two kinds of collectors, one that is listening and taking the Fifth, and the other is trying to demonstrate that his father is making more money, that his mother is more attractive, and that his pet dog will bite your arm if you have anything against it. (Milos Vujasinovic)
Time And health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted. (Denis Waitley)
Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation. (James Abbot McNeill Whistler)
There's a renaissance going on that is bringing a new appreciation and prosperity to those who use old-fashioned skill and patience to create wonderful things. (Barbara Winter)
To create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement. (Jeanette Winterson)
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