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

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

- Jacques Barzun

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

- 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

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

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

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

- Jacques Barzun

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

- Jacques Barzun

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