Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The greatest artists have never been men of taste. By never sophisticating their instincts they have never lost the awareness of the… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
My notion about any artist is that we honor him best by reading him, by playing his music, by seeing his plays… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Criticism will need an injection of humility that is, a recognition of its role as ancillary to the arts, needed only occasionally… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Shaw does not merely decorate a proposition, but makes his way from point to point through new and difficult territory. This explains… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The eager or dutiful persons who subject themselves to these tidal waves of the classics and the moderns find everything wonderful in… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
It is not clear to anyone, least of all the practitioners, how science and technology in their headlong course do or should… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
A person is not a democrat thanks to his ignorance of literature and the arts, nor an elitist because he or she… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
On reflection, moral judgment in the arts appears rather as a tribute to their power to influence emotion and possibly conduct. And… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The reason why research is like sculpting from memory is that in neither is there a concrete visible subject to copy directly. The subject… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Everybody keeps calling for Excellence - excellence not just in schooling, throughout society. But as soon as somebody or something stands out as Excellent,… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all things we… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The ascetic is often a sensualist who has reached the limit of his capacity. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
