Speaking of food, English cuisine has received a lot of unfair criticism over the years, but the truth is that it can… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality.… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Since I've been pregnant, I've lost my taste for fast food. I used to be the biggest McDonald's junkie and now I… — Holly Madison Copy Share Image
The latter. She had a good run, Sook said, doing a little shrug. It was his usual response to death at Mapleshade,… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
When you begin a picture you often make some pretty discoveries. You must be on guard against these. Destroy the thing, do… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I'm a connoisseur of film. I like certain films, but I don't pretend to be a connoisseur of films,… — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
In the drawing room [of the Queen's palace] hung a Venus and Cupid by Michaelangelo, in which, instead of a bit of… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
A connoisseur of gastronomy was congratulated on his appointment as a director of indirect contributions at Periguex: and, above all, in the… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Surely you know that if a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
If connoisseurship is the art of appreciation, criticism is the art of disclosure... Connoisseurs simply need to appreciate what they encounter. Critics,… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I am a connoisseur of fine irony. 'Tis a bit like fine wine, but it has a better bite. — Lynn Kurland Copy Share Image
I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who "appreciate" beauty. What is… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in fat content… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box. — James Herriot Copy Share Image
The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair. Gratitude will act… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image