Composition in French is a little slower for me, but not much, and as I am a great appreciator of good French prose, it is fun to try to imitate (at a distance) some of its qualities.
The true appreciator still sees in his earlier loves something that is good, and he values the good the more justly that he sees it now in its right relation and apprehends its real significance.
The appreciator need simply ask, What is the beauty, what the idea, which the artist is striving to reveal by these symbols of color and form?
From the tangle of daily living with its conflict of interests and its burden of practical needs, the appreciator turns to art with its power to chasten and to tranquillize.
The appreciator need simply ask himself, "What has this work to reveal to me of beauty that I have not perceived for myself?
For when all is said, there is no single invariable standard by which to try a work of art: its significance to the appreciator rests upon his capacity at the moment to receive it.
Appreciation is an art, and the quality of it depends upon the appreciator himself.
The interpretative critic--represented in the practice of Pater--stands between a work of art and the appreciator as mediator and revealer.
The final meaning of art to the appreciator lies in just this sense of its relation to his own experience.
For the artist it is creation by expression; for the appreciator it is creation by evocation.
In order to win its fullest message, therefore, the appreciator must set the work against the large background out of which it has proceeded.
The appreciator may seem to be a looker-on at life, in that he does not act but simply feels.
Between the spirit of the artist and the spirit of the appreciator stands the individual work of art as the means of expression and communication.
The form is significant to the appreciator only so far as regards its expressiveness and beauty.
In so far as an appreciator does not rest in his immediate enjoyment of a work of art, but seeks to account for his pleasure, to trace the sources of it, to establish the reasons for it, and to define its quality, so far he becomes a critic.
He is at once the artist translated into simpler terms and the appreciator raised to a higher power of perception and response.
Art exists not only for the artist's sake but for the appreciator too.
Art is born out of the stirring of the artist's spirit in response to his need of expression, and it reaches its fulfillment in the spirit of the appreciator as it answers his need of wider and deeper experience.
But the appreciator has yet to penetrate art's inmost secret.
What is the bridge of transition between the work and the spirit of the appreciator by which the subtle connection is established?
I never met a better appreciator of genuine humour.
With all his roughness and bluntness, Forster had a very soft heart, and was a great appreciator of the sex.
The creative appreciator is a correlative of all artistic expression.
In the previous chapter it was shown why poetry demands more imperatively than any other art, that the appreciator shall bring to it a margin of vitality.
But even in that enlightened age the master received all the credit for every achievement, and his creative appreciator none at all.
The creative appreciator of art is always at his goal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "appreciator" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: adherent; booster; buff; fan; promoter; tout
