"Actually i do not think that there are any wrong reasons for liking a statue or a picture. Somenone may like a landscape painting because it reminds him of home, or a portrait because it reminds him of a friend. There is nothing wrong with that. All of us, when we see a painting, are bound to be reminded of a hundred-and-one things wich influence our likes and dislikes. As long as these memories help us to enjoy what we see, we need not worry. It is only when some irrelevant memory makes us prejudiced, whe we instintively turn away from a magnificent picture of an alpine scene because we dislike climbing, that we should search our mind for the reason for the aversion wich spoils a pleasure we might otherewise have had. There are wrong reasons for dislinking a work of art."
E. H. Gombrich, The Story Of Art
