Quotes About Appreciating Art

#1. Art provides us with clues about how to live our lives more fully ... about how creating, collecting, and even just appreciating art can make daily living a masterpiece.

Michael Kimmelman

#2. Much of appreciating art or music is really the interpretation of the listener. To a certain extent it's projection - it's what people need or lack in themselves that they then put upon these people that they admire.

Conor Oberst

#3. Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.

Andre Braugher

#4. When the gospel has been eclipsed (whether by repression, false religion secularism, humanistic philosophy, or spiritual decay within the church), the status of women has declined accordingly.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#5. I have touched the highest point of all my greatness;
And from that full meridian of my glory
I haste now to my setting: I shall fall
Like a bright exhalation in the evening,
And no man see me more.

William Shakespeare

#6. I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.

Kevin J. Anderson

#7. For a few minutes I stood alone in her chambers, appreciating the light and silence and art. There was a van Gogh on one of the walls, worth more than most planets could pay. It was a painting of the artist's room at Arles. Madness is not a new invention.

Dan Simmons

#8. What's virtue in a man can't be virtue in a cat.

Mary Abigail Dodge

#9. For people like me, who have blocked out a chunk of their past, you wonder - if you open that door, if you walk into that room of your memories, what will happen? Will it destroy you or will it make you stronger?

Tim Daly

#10. I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.

David Attenborough

#11. Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing.

Sheena Iyengar

#12. Even an empty road leads somewhere, right?

Kathe Koja

#13. If I sold all my liabilities, I wouldn't own anything. My wife's a liability, my kids are liabilities, and I haven't sold them.

Ted Turner

#14. I have three kids, the oldest is 18 and her friends are going to see it The Aristocrats because they told her they're going to see it, especially her guy friends.

Bob Saget

#15. In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?

Jamie Foxx

#16. guilt force justification!

Eric Jerome Dickey

#17. Youth may be admired for vigor, but gray hair gives prestige to old age.

Eugene H. Peterson

#18. I feel like really thinking about art and really appreciating it and learning the language of it just makes you more of a connoisseur. I believe that.

David Rees

#19. I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

Drew Barrymore

#20. A person is both wise and wealthy when you master the art of appreciating what you already have.

Zelig Pliskin