Author: Jacques Barzun

Quotes

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

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

- 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

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

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

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

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

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

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