Author: Jacques Barzun

Quotes

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.

- Jacques Barzun

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

- Jacques Barzun

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

- Jacques Barzun

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

- Jacques Barzun

After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge remote circle, and no hills intervene.

After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge remote circle, and no hills intervene.

- Jacques Barzun

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.

- Jacques Barzun

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

- Jacques Barzun

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

- Jacques Barzun

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

- Jacques Barzun

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