The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets — Salvador Dali
Sophistication and lifestyle is understanding the difference between trinkets and treasures. — Jim Rohn
An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore. — Edward De Bono
A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car. — Kenneth Tynan
A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso. — A. P. Herbert
The guardian and arbiter of superlative eating, with every meal an unforgettable experience in pleasure, starting with the soup, which he said, 'must be the agent provocateur of a good dinner.' — Marie-Antoine Careme
A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart, who looks at her watch. — James Beard
Anyone who tries to make you believe that he knows all about wines is obviously a fake. — Leon Adams
Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting. — Andrea Illy
To be looked upon as a fool by an idiot is a true connoisseur's delight. — Georges Courteline
There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value. — Bel Kaufman
I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box. — James Herriot
I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear. — Peter Straub
Fragrance for me is never after or only, it's everything. I am a fragrance connoisseur. — Erin Heatherton
Connoisseurs think the art is already done. — John Constable
Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter. — Mel Gussow
Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur. — Kenneth Koch
Wine Connoisseur Quotes
Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else. — Ambrose Bierce
I'm not a wine connoisseur, but I do like a glass or two at night. — Diane Keaton
An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him. — Ambrose Bierce
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
I am a connoisseur of fine irony. 'Tis a bit like fine wine, but it has a better bite. — Lynn Kurland
Ways To Describe Quotes
The best way to describe myself would be...unpredictable. — Kendrick Lamar
There is a word in South Africa - Ubuntu - that describes his greatest gift: his recognition that we are all bound together in ways that can be invisible to the eye; that there is a oneness to humanity; that we achieve ourselves by sharing ourselves with others, and caring for those around us. — Barack Obama
People cheat on each other in a hundred different ways: indifference, emotional neglect, contempt, lack of respect, years of refusal of intimacy. Cheating doesn't begin to describe the ways that people let each other down. — Esther Perel
Negotiation is often described as the art of letting the other side have your way. You have to give the other side a chance to put stuff on the table voluntarily. — Chris Voss
It is hard to describe how much you learn by actually doing — by carefully considering all factors, making a decision, and then taking responsibility for the outcome. Unlocks wisdom that cannot be arrived at any other way. — Greg Brockman
Describing Woodstock as the "big bang," I think that's a great way to describe it, because the important thing about it wasn't how many people were there or that it was a lot of truly wonderful music that got played. — David Crosby
I am the model middle child. I am patient and I like to take care of everyone. Being called nice is a compliment. It's not a boring way to describe me. — Jennifer Garner
The process of open adoption is not discussed in the way it should be. Everyone I know who has adopted domestically has at least one tragic story. It was important to me to be able to describe those situations. — Jennifer Gilmore
You know, I'm the tough guy with taste, good friends, you know, describe me that I'm the tough guy, period, the way others do. But, you know, I'll tell you, I'm a complete wuss when it comes to my own kids. — Harvey Weinstein
The best way to describe our live show is that it's like hanging out with your best friends from TV for a night. — James Murray
Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting. — Craig Claiborne
Cuban cigars are an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky. If you're not used to them, you'll get a headache, you'll find them much too strong. But to a cigar connoisseur, a longtime smoker, if you have a well-made, well-aged one, there is nothing like a Cuban cigar. Getting them is the ultimate mission; any cigar lover would do anything — Marvin Shanken
The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them - especially not from yourself. Instead of turning away in denial when you make a mistake, you should become a connoisseur of your own mistakes, turning them over in your mind as if they were works of art, which in a way they are. — Daniel Dennett
I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same. — Pablo Picasso
The connoisseur might be defined as a laconic art historian, and the art historian as a loquacious connoisseur. — Erwin Panofsky
You may choose your words like a connoisseur,
And polish it up with art,
But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays,
Is the word that comes from the heart. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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
The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair. — Sam Keen
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty -- of the indefinite expansion of possibility. — Susan Sontag
American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone. — Camille Anna Paglia
Horsemanship is the one art for which it seems one needs only practice. However, practice without true principles is nothing other than routine, the fruit of which is a strained and unsure execution, a false diamond which dazzles semi-connoisseurs often more impressed by the accomplishments of the horse than the merit of the horseman. — Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone. — Camille Paglia
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
In the '70s, anybody who was a connoisseur of collecting vinyl had the velvet brush. Remember the velvet brush? It would clean the record, and you would only grab the record from the sides and you would carefully slide it into the jacket. I never had a velvet brush. — Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
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
Surely you know that if a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that "suits" him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches. — C. S. Lewis
The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes. Adept of the joys of watching, connoisseur of empathy, the flâneur finds the world 'picturesque. — Susan Sontag
If connoisseurship is the art of appreciation, criticism is the art of disclosure... Connoisseurs simply need to appreciate what they encounter. Critics, however, must render these qualities vivid by the artful use of critical disclosure. — Elliot W. Eisner
So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what. — Margaret Atwood
I certainly didn't have New York Jewish humor. But I was in three Mel Brooks films so people thought I was a connoisseur of New York Jewish humor. — Gene Wilder
The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself. — Pablo Picasso
Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality. Quality is the forerunner of acceptance. Character is the forerunner of quality. Be your own discriminating connoisseur. — Robert Genn
Those who are not conversant in works of art are often surprised at the high value set by connoisseurs on drawings which appear careless, and in every respect unfinished; but they are truly valuable... they give the idea of a whole. — Joshua Reynolds
It would be asking too much to want to sell only to connoisseurs - that way starvation lies. — Claude Monet
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
In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante. — Edith Wharton
It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be an expert connoisseur of music without being able to play a note on any instrument. Of course, music would come to a halt if nobody ever learned to play it. But if everybody grew up thinking that music was synonymous with playing it, think how relatively impoverished many lives would be. Couldn't we learn to think of science in the same way? — Richard Dawkins
The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating the beauty in it. — Jules de Goncourt
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
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility. — Susan Sontag
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