I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.
Only utopian liberals could be surprised that the Nazis were art connoisseurs.
So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.
There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
Those who are not conversant in works of art are often surprised at the high value set by connoisseurs on drawings which appear careless, and in every respect unfinished; but they are truly valuable. . . they give the idea of a whole.
