Gene Siskel Quotes

There are many artists that I present that I admit I like less than I do others. But I think that they warrant being presented by my own, personal standards.

I just always think, 'Do I like it?' And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.

I will say that over the years I've been associated with things that were well-reviewed that I wasn't particularly crazy about, and I've been in things that didn't get very good reviews that I was rather fond of.

I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.

I'm a romantic. The impressionists have always been my favorites. I like prettiness - beauty, or what I perceive as beauty.

If I think something is beautiful, there must be somebody out there who will agree with me.

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

I love art, but I'm not an academic; I just like what I like.

When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not.

The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.

Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.

Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it.

I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.

Wit has as few true judges as painting.

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.

Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their pleasure ... There is no taste which deserves the epithet good, unless it be the taste for such employments which, to the pleasure actually produced by them, conjoin some contingent or future utility: there is no taste which deserves to be characterized as bad, unless it be a taste for some occupation which has mischievous tendency.

I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful.

There are some readers who have never read an essay on taste; and if they take my advice they never will, for they can no more improve their taste by so doing than they could improve their appetite or digestion by studying a cookery-book.

I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me.

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts

A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious.