Quotes about Appreciation

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty...an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft.

The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.

Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.

Develop an 'attitude of gratitude.' Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you.

God smiles when we praise and thank Him continually. Few things feel better than receiving heartfelt praise and appreciation from someone else. God loves it, too. An amazing thing happens when we offer praise and thanksgiving to God. When we give God enjoyment, our own hearts are filled with joy.

Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life.

Everything alive is part of each of us, and many things which do not move as we move are part of us. The sun is part of us, the earth, the sky, the stars, the rivers, and the oceans. All things are part of us, and we have come here to enjoy them and to thank God for them.