Simple Appreciation Quotes

The world was so beautiful when regarded like this, without searching, so simply, in such a childlike way. Moons and stas were beautiful, beautiful were bank and stream, forest and rocks, goat and gold-bug, flower and butterfly. So lovely, so delightful to go through the world this way, so like a child, awake, open to what is near, without distrust.

That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

I don't think there is any such thing as a black writer or a white writer. Ultimately, there is someone whom one reads.

My mother and father didn't know anything about instruments. Me just see a man in the country play guitar one time and say, 'My, the man play that guitar nice.'

You don't have to know anything about art to appreciate it or to look at it. There aren't any hidden secrets or things that you're supposed to understand.

I think kids, in general as an audience, are the way forward because they're not sort of sullied by intellectual expectation or this or that. It's a very pure kind of response to the work.

That's one of my pet peeves. People always want to put something into a category - this one or that one. You know, a great song is a great song.

Faith of Cranes is a love song to the beauty and worth of the lives we are able to lead in the world just as it is, troubled though it be... The writing is honest, intensely lived, and overflowing with heart: broken, mended, and whole.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood.

We love kitties, gawd bless their little whiskers, and we don't give a damn whether they or we are superior or inferior! They're confounded pretty, and that's all we know and all we need to know!