Art Quote by Erwin Panofsky

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

Connoisseurs think the art is already done.

— John Constable

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

“Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium. — HENRI MATISSE”

— Jack Flam

I don't have the education of an art historian. I've certainly read about art and look at art and have educated myself to some…

— Lynne Tillman

I feel like really thinking about art and really appreciating it and learning the language of it just makes you more of a connoisseur.…

— David Rees

Contemporary art is based on that an artist is supposed to go into art history in the same way as an art historian. When…

— Odd Nerdrum

I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.

— Kristen Wiig

Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short and robust…

— Tom Paulin

The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art. He needs no…

— Robert Henri

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

Studying art history is actually one of the few ways of getting a good job in the arts sector. It's hard to be a…

— Munira Mirza