Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The language of salesmanship was no doubt born with the first fashions in fig leaves in the garden of Eden. A strange… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had. From it… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
On the other hand, there is a certain advantage in traveling with someone who has a reputation for shooting rather than being shot: as… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
advertisement ... has brought our disregard for truth into the open without even a figleaf to cover it. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
