Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
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.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
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.
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.
Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy.
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.
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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.
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual.
'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.
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.
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.
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