Quotes About Connoisseurs

#1. The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating the beauty in it.

Jules De Goncourt

#2. 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

#3. Where there are wars, there will be crows, the carrion-fanciers. And ravens too, the warbirds, the eyeball gourmands. And vultures, the holy birds of yore, old connoisseurs of rot.

Margaret Atwood

#4. It would be asking too much to want to sell only to connoisseurs - that way starvation lies.

Claude Monet

#5. Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

James Herriot

#6. If these yarns were trash - and millions of parents must have regarded them as such - then they were the best of all kinds of trash. They were trash for connoisseurs of trash. Trash for people who understood just how good trash could really be.

Don Hutchison

#7. But now we are either horrified at what we see or we pretend we are horrified, while in reality we relish the spectacle, as connoisseurs of strong and eccentric sensations that rouse us from our cynical and lazy apathy;

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#8. Only utopian liberals could be surprised that the Nazis were art connoisseurs.

Camille Paglia

#9. Today's connoisseurs of Sino-American relations seem to view the relationship through a dystopian prism; their gloomy commentaries are largely an assemblage of snapshots on contemporary interactions or day-to-day developments without a historical context.

Patrick Mendis

#10. Men do not know why they award fame to one work of art rather than another. Without being in the faintest connoisseurs, they think to justify the warmth of their commendations by discovering it in a hundred virtues, whereas the real ground of their applause is inexplicable
it is sumpathy.

Thomas Mann

#11. I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who "appreciate" beauty. What is beauty, anyway? There's no such thing. I never "appreciate," any more than I "like." I love it or I hate.

Pablo Picasso

#12. 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

#13. Sleep well, gentlemen, for tomorrow we become connoisseurs of shite.

James K. Morrow

#14. The connoisseurs sniff, categorise, rank, price, demote.
Celadons, the colour caught between green and blue, get sky after rain, and kingfishers, and iced water, all of which are lyrical.

Edmund De Waal

#15. 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

#16. connoisseurs of geologic form,

Jon Krakauer

#17. In some sense, Comedy Central has made their audience into comedy connoisseurs.

Mike Birbiglia

#18. I lived in the Quarter for two years, but in the end I got tired of Birmingham businessmen smirking around Bourbon Street and the homosexuals and patio connoisseurs on Royal Street.

Walker Percy

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

Susan Sontag

#20. Those who are not conversant in works of art are often surprised at the high value set by connoisseurs on drawings which appear careless, and in every respect unfinished; but they are truly valuable ... they give the idea of a whole.

Joshua Reynolds

#21. There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#22. Connoisseurs think the art is already done.

John Constable

#23. All good farmers become connoisseurs of dirt and dust.

David Mas Masumoto

#24. The French are connoisseurs of sadness, they know all kinds. This is why they have bidets.

Margaret Atwood

#25. 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

#26. I love Hershey's chocolate. I feel the same about chocolate as I do about wine. Connoisseurs like dark chocolate and they like nasty wine that doesn't taste good to me. I don't get it!

Paula Deen

#27. They were connoisseurs of boredom. They savoured the various bouquets of the subtly differentiated boredoms which rose from the long, wasted hours at the dead end of night.

Angela Carter

#28. One way to test a picture's integrity is to turn it upside down - a technique used not only by connoisseurs but also by artists trying to see their work with a fresh eye.

Peter Landesman

#29. Children are the true connoisseurs. What's precious to them has no price, only value.

Bel Kaufman

#30. There's nothing more absurd than a connoisseur.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir