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I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years. -- David Rockefeller
Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy. -- Robert Henri
Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual. -- Robert Henri
If some of this art is not for you, that's fine. Art appreciation is a subjective matter, and we each bring our own experience, knowledge and taste to the party. -- Michael Audain
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. -- Albert C. Barnes
To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation. -- George H. Mead
In India, nobody really talks about works of art; they always talk about the appreciation of art. You buy this for 3,000 rupees, it'll become 30,000 in two months. -- A. Balasubramaniam
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. -- Laurance Rockefeller
It's really interesting with art-movies too, but art especially - to see how your attitude toward artists and works and your level of appreciation of them is always shifting and changing over the years. -- Richard Hell
Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true - in certain rare, isolated cases. -- Paul Auster
Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize. -- F. Sionil Jose
Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness: the beautiful and necessary prelude to sleep - a special pleasure in itself that is all too often neglected, under-valued or looked down upon. -- Michael Leunig
It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see. -- Josef Albers
We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation. -- Art Garfunkel
The art of appreciation begins with self appreciation. -- Amit Abraham
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. -- Jean Cocteau
The presence of excessive wealth puts an unnatural spin on the appreciation of art. -- Steve Martin
Art Is One if Life's Richest Offerings. For those who have not the talent to create, there is appreciation. -- Nathanael West
Art Is One if Life's Richest Offerings. For those who have not the talent to create, there is appreciation. -- Nathanael West
The cannabis experience has greatly improved my appreciation for art, a subject which I had never much appreciated before, -- Carl Sagan
I've learnt so much from every film and every director - a new perspective, a greater appreciation of the art. -- Sally Menke
Appreciation is an art and a lifestyle and a source of happiness and fulfillment. It's called gratitude-an attitude of gratitude. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
The art of humility begins with a recognition of our dependence on others and an appreciation of God's gift of life. -- Wilferd Peterson
The appreciation of the merits of art of the emotions it conveys depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life... -- Leo Tolstoy
Art that imposes conditions - human or otherwise - on the receiver for its appreciation in my eyes constitutes aesthetic fascism. -- Lawrence Weiner
Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones. -- Robert Adams
Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own. -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which he earns his living. -- Brooks Atkinson
To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation. -- George H. Mead
Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or poetry must be developed. -- Karen Armstrong

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