#appreciation

For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and famous, or dead. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#art-appreciation #artistic #artists #dead #death

The biggest spur to my interest in art came when I played van Gogh in the biographical film Lust For Life. The role affected me deeply. I was haunted by this talented genius who took his own life, thinking he was a failure. How terrible to paint pictures and feel that no one wants them. How awful it would be to write music that no one wants to hear. Books that no one wants to read. And how would you like to be an actor with no part to play, and no audience to watch you. Poor Vincent—he wrestled with his soul in the wheat field of Auvers-sur-Oise, stacks of his unsold paintings collecting dust in his brother's house. It was all too much for him, and he pulled the trigger and ended it all. My heart ached for van Gogh the afternoon that I played that scene. As I write this, I look up at a poster of his "Irises"—a poster from the Getty Museum. It's a beautiful piece of art with one white iris sticking up among a field of blue ones. They paid a fortune for it, reportedly $53 million. And poor Vincent, in his lifetime, sold only one painting for 400 francs or $80 dollars today. This is what stimulated my interest in buying works of art from living artists. I want them to know while they are alive that I enjoy their paintings hanging on my walls, or their sculptures decorating my garden ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#appreciation #art #books #iris #irises

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#goodness #lie #roots #soil

J. Lo is also an homage to my fans. That's what fans call me on the streets, and I like it. So giving the album this title is my way of telling them that this is for them, in appreciation of their support. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#also #appreciation #call #fans #giving

We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music. ↗

— Jim Capaldi

#desire #had #music #range #such

Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#appreciation #battles #country #get #history

A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#art-appreciation #photography #art

I appreciated art, long before I could produce it. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#art #artistic-expression #artists #art

Just because it isn't perfect, doesn't mean it isn't awesome. ↗

— M.R. Mathias

#inspirational #inspirational

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. ↗

— Marcel Duchamp

#art #creative-process #creativity #art