Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality. Quality is the forerunner of acceptance. Character is the forerunner of quality. Be your own discriminating connoisseur.
I'm a bit of a connoisseur of Google criticism.
No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the resurrection and the life.
When you begin a picture you often make some pretty discoveries. You must be on guard against these. Destroy the thing, do it over several times. In each destroying of a beautiful discovery, the artist does not really suppress it, but rather condenses it, makes it more substantial. What comes out in the end is the result of discarded finds. Otherwise you become your own connoisseur.
Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.
The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets
Fragrance for me is never after or only, it's everything. I am a fragrance connoisseur.
The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair.
You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.
There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
I'm not really a food connoisseur.
Your thin white face, chérie; he said, as if he saw it for the first time. Your thin white face, with its promise of debauchery only a connoisseur could detect.
Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter.
The connoisseur might be defined as a laconic art historian, and the art historian as a loquacious connoisseur.
An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.
I'm not a wine connoisseur, but I do like a glass or two at night.
Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.
I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.
Only utopian liberals could be surprised that the Nazis were art connoisseurs.
