Best Jacques Barzun Quotations
- no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it. All
- Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes. Block
- Simple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked for. English
- The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. Education
- Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding of his subject:… Any
- The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it. All
- Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in the literal sense… Cocteau
- Always old-fashioned Always Old
- A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both… Air
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