Michael Audain famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If some of this art is not for you, that's fine. Art appreciation is a subjective matter, and we each bring our own experience, knowledge and taste to the party.
-- Michael Audain

#Appreciation #Art #Matter
I started collecting art... simply because I wanted pictures to hang on the wall. I noticed what a difference a picture could make to the ambience of a room, and indeed how shifting work around could change a room's whole feeling.
-- Michael Audain

#Art #Wall #Differences
I buy art in order to live with it at home or in the office, never to store it away in a vault. In fact, living with art has been one of the great joys of my life. It is a private pleasure, however, and not one that I have an urge to inflict on other people.
-- Michael Audain

#Art #Home #Order
The Arts Council of England, in a 1998 report on 11 countries, found that Germany spent $85 per capita on the arts. The United States spent a shocking $6. And Canada, in its stubborn balance, spent $46... It's the Canadian way to be halfway between the Old and New worlds.
-- Michael Audain

#Country #Art #Museums
I was not, though, born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Despite what people seem to think.
-- Michael Audain

#Thinking #People #Spoons
I buy based on emotion, because I am fascinated with an object that I simply cannot live without. Although I often end up acquiring two or three works by an artist who particularly interests me, it's more for fear that a single one might get too lonely.
-- Michael Audain

#Lonely #Artist #Two

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.
An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky.
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state--it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.... Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
Unless we learn the lesson of self-appreciation and practice it, we shall spend our lives imitating other people and deprecating ourselves.
When someone comes along who genuinely thanks us, we will follow that person a very long way.
Appreciation of works of art requires organized effort and systematic study. Art appreciation can no more be absorbed by aimless wandering in galleries than can surgery be learned by casual visits to a hospital.
As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.
On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.
No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington.

Michael Audain famous quotes

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