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[FantasticDorf]

Id chalk this suggestion down to a very simple observation that dwarves by viewing simple furniture themselves of very little quality can't be disinterested, and often have their needs fufilled by the simplest of furniture, including their personal rooms, public dining rooms. This leaves the genuinely dedicated and lovingly crafted furniture, display pieces and luxurious statues being much harder to fufill due to already being sated with simple pleasures, less likely to ooze positive emotion in favor of 'meh' reactions and artistic need filling to the top.

• Im thoroughly sure this is also not just a dwarven cultural trait, even races with very little are easily over-satisfied if they view it as a nessecary thing at all.

So i hope this floats into Toady's ear in terms of further mood tweaks, making it a little bit harder will make dwarves intake more of their surroundings at once rather than 2 cheap items around them intermittently. A hunger for art and decorated items being particularly insatiable inside dwarven society, may end up drawing dwarves into your galleries and museums much more actively.

[Azerty]

Id chalk this suggestion down to a very simple observation that dwarves by viewing simple furniture themselves of very little quality can't be disinterested, and often have their needs fufilled by the simplest of furniture, including their personal rooms, public dining rooms. This leaves the genuinely dedicated and lovingly crafted furniture, display pieces and luxurious statues being much harder to fufill due to already being sated with simple pleasures, less likely to ooze positive emotion in favor of 'meh' reactions and artistic need filling to the top.

• Im thoroughly sure this is also not just a dwarven cultural trait, even races with very little are easily over-satisfied if they view it as a nessecary thing at all.

So i hope this floats into Toady's ear in terms of further mood tweaks, making it a little bit harder will make dwarves intake more of their surroundings at once rather than 2 cheap items around them intermittently. A hunger for art and decorated items being particularly insatiable inside dwarven society, may end up drawing dwarves into your galleries and museums much more actively.

Both fortress wealth and the personality traits Artwork and Craftmanship should factor in. For exemple a very wealthy fortress where these traits are widespread would ask for more masterworks.

[FantasticDorf]

Also worth factoring that dwarves dont path to art, they just acknowledge and take the easy way out viewing cheap furniture close to the tile they're idling or doing something around. I can imagine dwarves scouring fortresses looking for art they haven't seen in the same sequence yet (no viewing something twice, that's cheating), perfectly setting them up to glut over your museums, zoos and statue gardens full of attractive high value items like days of yore.

Even to retreat to your office to view a giant statue of yourself when the need takes you, im sure evokes some sort of hubris-trip.

[Starver]

I get images in my mind of some Dwarven version of Verseille with its residents frankly bored of all the gilded mirrors, etc.  Elsewhere, some others are totally entranced by a single rough-hewn statue in the depths of a cave...

(i.e. expectations and possibilities can mismatch wildly... perhaps partly inate, but obviously experience shifts things greatly.)