Connoisseur Quote by Ambrose Bierce

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

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. On the other hand, it is of little use to take criticism in a slavish spirit…

— Ellen Terry

An experts a man who knows a great deal about his subject. A scholars someone who knows all there is thats available to be…

— Gordon R Dickson

critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.

— Ambrose Bierce

A person who knows all that is good and all that is true---as much as can be known---but does not resist evils, knows nothing.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.

— Anonymous

A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.

— Ambrose Bierce

He [the "specialist"] is one who, out of all that has to be known in order to be a man of judgment, is only…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

The word Cunt was added to the dictionary to describe people like u..

— SouL

When you begin a picture you often make some pretty discoveries. You must be on guard against these. Destroy the thing, do it over…

— 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

A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business.

— Paul Gauguin