If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will be poor in ideas. If he could take what he wants wherever he could find it, as Euripides… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work. — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue. — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have. — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is. — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
