The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work. — Robin G. Collingwood Art 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… — Robin G. Collingwood Admiration 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… — Robin G. Collingwood Art 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… — Robin G. Collingwood Ashamed Copy Share Image
Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness — Robin G. Collingwood Art 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… — Robin G. Collingwood Beginners 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… — Robin G. Collingwood Contemplation 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,… — Robin G. Collingwood Abiding Copy Share Image
Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue. — Robin G. Collingwood I can Copy Share Image
The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have. — Robin G. Collingwood Children 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;… — Robin G. Collingwood Appetite 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… — Robin G. Collingwood Doe Copy Share Image
The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is. — Robin G. Collingwood Done Copy Share Image
History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is… — Robin G. Collingwood Can do Copy Share Image
The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind. — Robin G. Collingwood Historian Copy Share Image
If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will… — Robin G. Collingwood Art Copy Share Image
Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way. — Robin G. Collingwood Generations Copy Share Image
Art has no cosmology, it gives us no view of the universe; every distinct work of art gives us a little cosmology… — Robin G. Collingwood Art Copy Share Image
To regard such a positive mental science [psychology] as rising above the sphere of history, and establishing the permanent and unchanging laws… — Robin G. Collingwood Age Copy Share Image
The aim of science is to apprehend this purely intelligible world as a thing in itself, an object which is what it… — Robin G. Collingwood Aim Copy Share Image
The artist must prophesy not in the sense that he foretells things to come, but in the sense that he tells his… — Robin G. Collingwood Art Copy Share Image
The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with… — Robin G. Collingwood Business Copy Share Image
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