Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. … It is … - Ann Patchett

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please don't cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean.

Ann Patchett

Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. … It is a kind of talent in itself, to be an audience, whether you are the spectator in the gallery or you are listening to the voice of the world's greatest soprano. Not everyone can be the artist. There have to be those who witness the art, who love and appreciate what they have been privileged to see.

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