Connoisseur Quotes

• Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

  James Herriot

  Cat, Pet, Comfort

  James Herriot (2012). “Vet in Harness”, p.82, Pan Macmillan

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• The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets

  Salvador Dali

  Wine, Secret, Doe

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• I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.

  Pablo Picasso

  Fashion, Numbers, Style

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• You may choose your words like a connoisseur,
  And polish it up with art,
  But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays,
  Is the word that comes from the heart.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Art, May, Polish

  "The Word". "New Thought Pastels". Book by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1906.

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• If connoisseurship is the art of appreciation, criticism is the art of disclosure... Connoisseurs simply need to appreciate what they encounter. Critics, however, must render these qualities vivid by the artful use of critical disclosure.

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Appreciation, Art, Appreciate

  Elliot W. Eisner (2005). “Reimagining Schools: The Selected Works of Elliot W. Eisner”, p.41, Routledge

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• Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.

  Bel Kaufman

  Children, Values

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “This and That: Random Thoughts and Recollections”, p.58, Open Road Media

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• The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beautiful, Running, Art

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• The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

  Susan Sontag

  Liberty, Expansion, Possibility

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors”, p.118, Penguin UK

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• I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.

  Susan Orlean

  Procrastination, Thinking, Creative

  "Named" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. July 19, 2010.

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• I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in fat content in ground meat in a burger and can actually name the temperature to which it was actually cooked to the degree if I'm, you know, really on my game.

  Alton Brown

  Thinking, Games, Names

  "Foodie Wannabe? Here's How To Fake It". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. October 7, 2011.

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• Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wine, Definitions, Specialists

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• Connoisseurs think the art is already done.

  John Constable

  Art, Thinking, Done

  John Constable (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)”, p.561, Delphi Classics

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• American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.

  Camille Paglia

  Reality, College, Style

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.120, Vintage

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• The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them - especially not from yourself. Instead of turning away in denial when you make a mistake, you should become a connoisseur of your own mistakes, turning them over in your mind as if they were works of art, which in a way they are.

  Daniel Dennett

  Art, Mistake, Mind

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.

  James Herriot

  Letters, Nasty, Boxes

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• Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter.

  Mel Gussow

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

  Mel Gussow (1998). “Theatre on the Edge: New Visions, New Voices”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.

  Kenneth Koch

  Should, Said

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• Cuban cigars are an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky. If you're not used to them, you'll get a headache, you'll find them much too strong. But to a cigar connoisseur, a longtime smoker, if you have a well-made, well-aged one, there is nothing like a Cuban cigar. Getting them is the ultimate mission; any cigar lover would do anything

  Marvin Shanken

  Strong, Scotch, Cuban Cigars

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• In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.

  Edith Wharton

  Happiness, World, Littles

  Edith Wharton (2016). “A Backward Glance”, p.113, Edith Wharton

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• The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.

  Pablo Picasso

  Giving, Judging, Advice

  Pablo Picasso (1972*). “Picasso: 90 Drawings and Works in Colour”

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• I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.

  Peter Straub

  Appreciation

  "PETER STRAUB: Connoisseur of Fear". Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. June, 1997.

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• So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.

  Margaret Atwood

  Fun, Plot, Favors

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Good Bones and Simple Murders”, p.56, Nan A. Talese

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• Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting.

  Craig Claiborne

  Food, Cooking, Giants

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• I'm not a wine connoisseur, but I do like a glass or two at night.

  Diane Keaton

  Wine, Night, Glasses

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• The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes. Adept of the joys of watching, connoisseur of empathy, the flâneur finds the world 'picturesque.

  Susan Sontag

  Cities, Empathy, Joy

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.50, Macmillan

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