“It took some time before the public learned that to appreciate an Impressionist painting one has to step back a few yards, and enjoy the miracle of seeing these puzzling patches suddenly fall into one place and come to life before our eyes.” EyeFallEnjoyStepsSeeingPaintingAppreciateMiracleYardsPatchesPuzzlingImpressionismImpressionists Author:Ernst Gombrich
“I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.” ShouldStillsPleasurePaintingAppreciateDiscardedTime Goes By Book:Monet Source: Monet
“It's important to have a life and spend time outside of those things [music and politics], in order to appreciate what you've achieved as far as just spending time with people you love, and doing things like painting.” PeopleImportantOrderPaintingAppreciateSpendingEnd TimesSpend TimeSpending Time Author:Eddie Vedder
“Well, I dare not allow myself any illusions, and I am afraid it may never happen that Father and Mother will really appreciate my art. It is not their fault; we do not see the same things with the same eyes, or have the same thoughts raised in us by them. They will never be able to understand what painting is.” WellsMayArtHappensEyeAbleMotherFatherPaintingIllusionAppreciateFaultsRaisedDare Author:Vincent Van Gogh
“What if at school you had to take an 'art class' in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci and Picasso? Would that make you appreciate art? Would you want to learn more about it? I doubt it..........but this is how math is taught and so in the eyes of most of us it becomes the equivalent of watching paint dry. While the paintings of the great masters are readily available, the math of the great masters is locked away.” IfsWantArtEyeSchoolClassDoubtTaughtPaintingMastersAppreciatePaintAvailableMathDryWhat IfLockedFenceLeonardoArt Class Author:Edward Frenkel
“It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.” ArtStillsSawsPaintingFlowerAppreciateExquisiteStill Life Author:Georgia O'Keeffe
“Good painting is nothing else but a copy of the perfections of God and a reminder of His painting. Finally, good painting is a music and a melody which intellect only can appreciate, and with great difficulty.” PaintingAppreciatePerfectionDifficultyAppreciationIntellectMelodyCopiesReminders Author:Michelangelo
“Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music - his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting - that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.” ArtReasonPainFormArtistTeachPaintingPoetPersonalityAppreciateMethodCriticsTechniquePainterAppealsReason WhyAestheticPupilsGreat Poet Book:The critic as artist (low cost). Limited edition Source: The critic as artist (low cost). Limited edition