There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are…

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

— Jules de Goncourt

If connoisseurship is the art of appreciation, criticism is the art of disclosure... Connoisseurs simply need to appreciate what they encounter. Critics, however, must…

— Elliot W. Eisner

I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion…

— Pablo Picasso

Those who are not conversant in works of art are often surprised at the high value set by connoisseurs on drawings which appear careless,…

— Joshua Reynolds

Connoisseurs think the art is already done.

— John Constable

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

— Bel Kaufman

My wife and I are connoisseurs of films but in opposite directions. She's a connoisseur of really good, classy foreign films. I'm a connoisseur…

— Mark Pellegrino

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

— James Herriot

“Most ordinary mortals, mistake money or visualize money in its physical form - as coins or currency. Thus they begin counting it, hoarding it…

— Vinod Pande

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

— Mike Birbiglia

“I have known many true connoisseurs, with excellent tastes that range across the humanities and the culinary arts--and they never fail to have a…

— Zadie Smith

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

— Susan Orlean

“I was already a weary connoisseur of my dad’s pornography and had begun to develop my almost supernatural ability for guessing women’s bra sizes.”

— Russell Brand

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

“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,…

— Terry Pratchett