Art Appreciation Quotes

• 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

  Family, Mother, Appreciation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.

  Albert Einstein

  Happy, Art, Feelings

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.10, Princeton University Press

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• Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christmas

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• Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual.

  Robert Henri

  Appreciation, Art, Like Love

  Robert Henri (1976). “Robert Henri, 1865-1929: Exhibition October 15-November 27, 1976”

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• Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

  Robert Motherwell

  Life, Art, Important

  Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”

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• The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Leadership, Beautiful

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• 'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Art, Laughter, Humor

  Source: briansherwin-artcritic.blogspot.com

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• The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination, may lift itself to the height of this idea. Art is therefore akin to creation.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Ideas, Imagination

  Leo Tolstoy (2015). “What is Art?: "The Kingdom of God is Within You"”, p.432, eKitap Projesi

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• Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

  Pablo Picasso

  Song, Art, Bird

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• Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.

  Jonathan Swift

  Inspirational, Leadership, Teacher

  "Thoughts on various subjects (Further thoughts on various subjects)". Book by Jonathan Swift, 1745.

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• 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

  Appreciation, Art, Effort

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• 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, Art, Matter

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• Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy.

  Robert Henri

  Appreciation, Art, Like Love

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Inspirational, Life, Music

  Ludwig Van Beethoven (2004). “Beethoven: The Man and the Artist”, p.17, 1st World Publishing

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• In one of the Upanishads it says, when the glow of a sunset holds you and you say 'Aha,' that is the recognition of the divinity. And when you say 'Aha' to an art object, that is a recognition of divinity. And what divinity is it? It is your divinity, which is the only divinity there is. We are all phenomenal manifestations of a divine will to live, and that will and the consciousness of life is one in all of us, and that is what artwork expresses.

  Joseph Campbell

  Art, Sunset, Divinity

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• The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

  Mark Van Doren

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

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• A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Thank You, Appreciation, Teacher

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  It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Dance, Education

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.52, St. Martin's Press

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• Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving

  "How to Write a Gratitude Speech" by Peggy Epstein, bizfluent.com. September 26, 2017.

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• Existence is movement. Action is movement. Existence is defined by the rhythm of forces in natural balance. (...) It is our appreciation for dance that allows us to see clearly the rhythms of nature and to take natural rhythm to a plane of well-organised art and culture.

  Rudolf von Laban

  Dance, Appreciation, Art

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• To me, money is a means to do good. I reached a point in my life where I had enjoyed tremendous business success that afforded my family everything we could possibly want. My wife and I then decided that we could use our wealth to make a difference. So we created the Broad Foundations to do four things: to improve urban public education, to support innovative scientific and medical research, to foster art appreciation for audiences worldwide and to support civic initiatives in Los Angeles.

  Eli Broad

  Appreciation, Money, Art

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• I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that. And I meditate, and one time when I was meditating, I started thinking, "Gee Gail, you love stories -- you read all the time. How come you never tell yourself a story?" While I should have been saying my mantra to myself, I started telling myself a story. It turned out to be an art appreciation book for kids with reproductions of famous artworks and pencil drawings that I did. I tried to get it published and was rejected wholesale.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Appreciation, Art, Book

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