Artist Quotes by Robin G. Collingwood

The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.

— Robin G. Collingwood

As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the admiration of…

— Robin G. Collingwood

The romantic artist expects people to ask, 'What has he got to say?' The classical artist expects them to ask, 'How does he say…

— Robin G. Collingwood

What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.

— Robin G. Collingwood

Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness

— Robin G. Collingwood

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

— Robin G. Collingwood

Nothing capable of being memorized is history.

— Robin G. Collingwood

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that ...…

— Robin G. Collingwood

To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the sense of…

— Robin G. Collingwood

There is no truer and more abiding happiness than the knowledge that one is free to go on doing, day by day, the best…

— Robin G. Collingwood

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

— Robin G. Collingwood

The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have.

— Robin G. Collingwood

Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is…

— Robin G. Collingwood

Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.

— Robin G. Collingwood

The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

— Robin G. Collingwood