Appreciation Quote by F. R. Leavis

“Reading, like other types of art appreciation, is intensely personal. So what appeals to people is going to depend on who they are. It…

— Lauren Dane

“When it comes to forming opinions on works of art, people look to others. Most people end up liking paintings, songs and movies just…

— Abhaidev

It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are…

— Simone Weil

I don't feel like literature has the power to alienate. I think that's something people feel if they don't connect with a work of…

— Eleanor Catton

I think folks who are resistant to engaging in art become less so once they encounter art that really reflects them.

— Lynn Nottage

“High culture is paranoid about sentiment, but human beings are intensely sentimental. And if art doesn’t speak language that’s acceptable to people, it relegates…

— Thomas Kinkade

One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people alienated by…

— Tino Sehgal

Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more sensitive, more…

— Paul Auster

A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.

— Hannah Gadsby

In minority communities there's a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There's a misunderstanding of what an artist does.

— Junot Diaz

Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.

— Jennifer Aniston

Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol' "The audience…

— David Foster Wallace