It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet. — Kojiro Tomita Copy Share Image
Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Appreciation of works of art requires organized effort and systematic study. Art appreciation can no more be absorbed by aimless wandering in… — Albert C. Barnes Copy Share Image
Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
If some of this art is not for you, that's fine. Art appreciation is a subjective matter, and we each bring our… — Michael Audain Copy Share Image
'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
“In my young days I praised the master whose pictures I liked, but as my judgment matured I praised myself for liking… — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
“No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“It’s amazing what can be done by people who learn to relax, pay attention, and focus, appreciating the present hour and all… — Steve Chandler Copy Share Image
It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
Existence is movement. Action is movement. Existence is defined by the rhythm of forces in natural balance. (...) It is our appreciation… — Rudolf von Laban Copy Share Image
The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Imagine members of an art appreciation society pleading in court that they ‘believe’ they need a hallucinogenic drug in order to enhance… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“According to this view, all that matters to art appreciation is beauty of form. The logical extreme of aestheticism turns out to… — John McAteer Copy Share Image
When people see one of these new forms of art for the first time, often they can't make sense of it. Then,… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
To me, money is a means to do good. I reached a point in my life where I had enjoyed tremendous business… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
“To maximize what you get out of your college experience, I want your friends to look at your semester schedule and say… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Reading, like other types of art appreciation, is intensely personal. So what appeals to people is going to depend on who they… — Lauren Dane Copy Share Image
“Once she called to invite me to a concert of Liszt piano concertos. The soloist was a famous South American pianist. I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“On 21 February 2006 the United States Supreme Court ruled, in accordance with the Constitution, that a church in New Mexico should… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Here is another weird example of the privileging of religion. On 21 February 2006 the United States Supreme Court ruled, in accordance… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
