Nobody believes experts, but everybody listens to them.
Jdan Noritiov
Being an expert is the art of teaching a science to veterans while remaining a beginner.
Jules Jouy
Expert: a man who knows more and more about fewer and fewer things.
Karl Popper
An expert can tell you what is possibly true and the certainly false.
Maurice Gobin
Knowing all about a work of art - distinguishing between the "genuine" and the "fake" - is it not ultimately a question of intuition and feeling? There is almost certainly no other secret. But we must not forget that these two terms presuppose the initial basis we have already talked about - physical capacity and keenness of the eye, taste and sensitivity - and furthermore, require extensive experience, underscored by wilful and passionate attention. (Daumier sculpteur, Pierre Cailler publisher Geneva 1952)
Philippe Rouillé
An expert doesn't know everything. But he knows where to get answers.
Pierre Bonnard
Painting must return to its initial objective, to examine the inner lives of human beings.
Rainer-Maria Rilke
And more inexpressible than anything else are works of art, these secret beings whose life stands shoulder to shoulder with our own, as it goes by.
Rainer-Maria Rilke
To get close to works of art, nothing is worse than criticism. Only love can understand them, keep them, be just and fair to them.
René Huyghe
The appraisal of a painting is based on "qualitative" judgement, which requires: 1. knowledge of the precise characteristics of the style and technique which define the personality of an artist 2. sufficient sensibility to be able to recognize these characteristics, a sensibility that is cultivated and developed by study". What is true of a painting can of course be extended to any work of art. (L'Amour de l'Art - editions of February and April 1936)
Auguste Detoeuf
