Quotes of Connoisseur - somelinesforyou

“ Critics are already made. ”

- Lord Byron

“ An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. ”

- Charles Horton Cooley

“ A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart, who looks at her watch. ”

- James Beard

“ The Galloping Gourmet isn't a zombie, just really really English. ”

- Unknown

“ What is art but a way of seeing. ”

- Thomas Berger

“ Luckily for Kerry, there are a number of five-star restaurants in Washington that can prepare gourmet box lunches in case he's forced to make another faux fast-food stop at Wendy's. ”

- Steve Schmidt

“ Bad artists copy. Good artists steal. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ Hubris itself will not let you be an artist. ”

- Larry Wall

“ I don't like gourmet cooking or "this" cooking or "that" cooking. I like good cooking. ”

- James Beard

“ I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life. ”

- Oprah Winfrey

“ I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit? ”

- John Steinbeck

“ The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty — of the indefinite expansion of possibility. ”

- Susan Sontag

“ Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter. ”

- Mel Gussow

“ Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better. ”

- Andre Gide

“ The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ”

- Émile Zola

“ Every artist was first an amateur. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The public is wiser than the wisest critic. ”

- George Bancroft

“ An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Every artist writes his own autobiography. ”

- Havelock Ellis

“ Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. ”

- Lionel Trilling

“ This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave. ”

- Thomas Wolfe

“ With an apple I will astonish Paris. ”

- Paul Cezanne

“ Artists must be sacrificed to their art. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Give me a museum, and I'll fill it. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs. ”

- Desmond Morris

“ A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude. ”

- Willa Cather

“ For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist. ”

- George V. Higgins

“ If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this. ”

- James Mcneill Whistler

“ Art is too serious to be taken seriously. ”

- Ad Reinhardt
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