Blue Quote by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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

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

I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion…

— 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

Connoisseurs think the art is already done.

— John Constable

Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.

— Bel Kaufman

My wife and I are connoisseurs of films but in opposite directions. She's a connoisseur of really good, classy foreign films. I'm a connoisseur…

— Mark Pellegrino

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

— James Herriot

“Most ordinary mortals, mistake money or visualize money in its physical form - as coins or currency. Thus they begin counting it, hoarding it…

— Vinod Pande

In some sense, Comedy Central has made their audience into comedy connoisseurs.

— Mike Birbiglia

“I have known many true connoisseurs, with excellent tastes that range across the humanities and the culinary arts--and they never fail to have a…

— Zadie Smith

I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.

— Susan Orlean

“I was already a weary connoisseur of my dad’s pornography and had begun to develop my almost supernatural ability for guessing women’s bra sizes.”

— Russell Brand

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

“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,…

— Terry Pratchett