Art Quote by Freya Stark

I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend…

— Freya Stark

The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room.

— Freya Stark

From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of…

— Freya Stark

The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live.

— Freya Stark

Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.

— Freya Stark

The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had. From it…

— Freya Stark

On the other hand, there is a certain advantage in traveling with someone who has a reputation for shooting rather than being shot: as…

— Freya Stark

If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.

— Freya Stark

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— Freya Stark

Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?

— Freya Stark

The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are…

— Freya Stark

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

— Freya Stark