Connoisseur Quotes - Page 3

• I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who "appreciate" beauty. What is beauty, anyway? There's no such thing. I never "appreciate," any more than I "like." I love it or I hate.

  Pablo Picasso

  Love, Hate, Eye

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• I'm very, very family oriented. I'm a big cook and a good connoisseur and I only drink very good red wines now.

  Michael Caine

  Wine, Red, Drink

  "Q & A: Oscar-Winning Michael Caine Asks “Is Anybody There?”". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 24, 2009.

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• The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the scream of fire engines, or the realization that today is the Monday which on Friday night was a comfortably long way off. A dog's wet nose is not strictly speaking the worst of the bunch, but it has it's own peculiar dreadfulness which connoisseurs of the ghastly and dog owners everywhere have come to know and dread. It's like having a small piece of defrosting liver pressed lovingly against you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Friday, Dog, Monday

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Moving Pictures: (Discworld Novel 10)”, p.231, Random House

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• They were connoisseurs of boredom. They savoured the various bouquets of the subtly differentiated boredoms which rose from the long, wasted hours at the dead end of night.

  Angela Carter

  Night, Long, Boredom

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• Fragrance for me is never after or only, it's everything. I am a fragrance connoisseur.

  Erin Heatherton

  Ever After, Fragrance

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Mick Jagger also a music connoisseur and knows everything about that era. So, you knew the music side was going to be top-notch. It's HBO. On Men of Certain Age, if we wanted a song, it would break the bank. But, Vinyl can go all-out.

  Ray Romano

  Song, Men, Hbo

  Source: collider.com

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• I am a connoisseur of fine irony. 'Tis a bit like fine wine, but it has a better bite.

  Lynn Kurland

  Wine, Irony, Fine

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• I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep myself in a solitude I nurse like a vice I've refused to vanquish.

  Julia Glass

  Rain, Nurse, Joy

  Julia Glass (2003). “Three Junes”, Vintage

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• No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the resurrection and the life.

  Joyce Cary

  Bored, Doubt, Treasure

  Joyce Cary (1958). “First trilogy: Herself surprised: To be a pilgrim. The horse's mouth”

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• When you begin a picture you often make some pretty discoveries. You must be on guard against these. Destroy the thing, do it over several times. In each destroying of a beautiful discovery, the artist does not really suppress it, but rather condenses it, makes it more substantial. What comes out in the end is the result of discarded finds. Otherwise you become your own connoisseur.

  Pablo Picasso

  Beautiful, Artist, Discovery

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• The latter. She had a good run, Sook said, doing a little shrug. It was his usual response to death at Mapleshade, and it was a safe bet that he felt that way about himself. Like most twice-widowed, Korea-vet, nature-loving, gun-enthusiast, bilingual, weed-connoisseur great grandfathers of five, he'd lived a full life.

  Lisa Lutz

  Running, Weed, Gun

  Lisa Lutz, David Hayward (2011). “Heads You Lose”, p.21, Penguin

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• It would be asking too much to want to sell only to connoisseurs - that way starvation lies.

  Claude Monet

  Lying, Would Be, Asking

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• Your thin white face, chérie; he said, as if he saw it for the first time. Your thin white face, with its promise of debauchery only a connoisseur could detect.

  Angela Carter

  White, Promise, Faces

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• Only utopian liberals could be surprised that the Nazis were art connoisseurs.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Nazi, Utopian

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae”, p.45, Yale University Press

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• I'm a bit of a connoisseur of Google criticism.

  Matt Cutts

  Google, Criticism, Bits

  "TED 2011: The 'Panda' That Hates Farms: A Q&A With Google's Top Search Engineers". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. March 3, 2011.

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• I'm not really a food connoisseur.

  Aasif Mandvi

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love Hershey's chocolate. I feel the same about chocolate as I do about wine. Connoisseurs like dark chocolate and they like nasty wine that doesn't taste good to me. I don't get it!

  Paula Deen

  Wine, Dark, Chocolate

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• Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell.

  Jan Morris

  Hands, Oysters, Cities

  Jan Morris (2008). “Venice”, p.167, Faber & Faber

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• Since I've been pregnant, I've lost my taste for fast food. I used to be the biggest McDonald's junkie and now I don't like it anymore. I used to be the biggest fast-food connoisseur, and now I've really lost my taste for it.

  Holly Madison

  Mcdonalds, Taste, Fast Food

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• A connoisseur of gastronomy was congratulated on his appointment as a director of indirect contributions at Periguex: and, above all, in the pleasure there would be in living in the midst of good cheer, in the country of truffles, partridges, truffled turkeys, and so forth. "Alas!" replied with a sigh the sad gastronomer, "can one really live at all in a country where there is no fresh sea-fish?"

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Country, Cheer, Food

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• In the drawing room [of the Queen's palace] hung a Venus and Cupid by Michaelangelo, in which, instead of a bit of drapery, the painter has placed Cupid's foot between Venus's thighs. Queen Caroline asked General Guise, an old connoisseur, if it was not a very fine piece? He replied "Madam, the painter was a fool, for he has placed the foot where the hand should be.

  Horace Walpole

  Queens, Hands, Drawing

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• Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Art, Appreciate, Judging

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