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