Famous Quotes / Jacques Barzun
12 Quotations by Jacques Barzun
- 1. Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not ...
- 2. Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
- 3. In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a ...
- 4. In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to sk ...
- 5. In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twen ...
- 6. Intellect deteriorates after every surrender to folly unless we consciously resist, the nonsense doe ...
- 7. It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
- 8. Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that ex ...
- 9. Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
- 10. Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
- 11. The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois pro ...
- 12. Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realiti ...