"Picasso said once when being interviewed that one……" — Kenneth Koch

"Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur."

— Kenneth Koch

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33 Quotes by Kenneth Koch

Kenneth Koch has 33 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.
I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.
I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are…
When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I…
Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.
I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or…
Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.
I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years,…
Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written…
It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.
I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again…
It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.

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More Connoisseur Quotes

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I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in… — Alton Brown
...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one… — Arthur Rubinstein
Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else. — Ambrose Bierce
I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear. — Peter Straub
Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value. — Bel Kaufman
To be looked upon as a fool by an idiot is a true connoisseur's delight. — Georges Courteline
American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained… — Camille Paglia
I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are… — Pablo Picasso
The connoisseur might be defined as a laconic art historian, and the art historian as a loquacious connoisseur. — Unknown Author
There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who "appreciate" beauty.… — Pablo Picasso
Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter. — Mel Gussow

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