Art Quote by Jacques Barzun

Seeing clearly within himself and always able to dodge around the ends of any position, including his own, Shaw assumed from the start the…

— Jacques Barzun

Concerning no subject would [George Bernard] Shaw be deterred by the minor accident of total ignorance from penning a definitive opinion.

— Roger Scruton

“No man ought to write at all, or even to speak at all, unless he thinks that he is in truth and the other…

— G.K. Chesterton

Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english.

— James Joyce

I hate Bernard Shaw because he says that life is compromise.

— Christina Stead

“Each of these passages has faults of its own, but, quite apart from avoidable ugliness, two qualities are common to all of them. The…

— George Orwell

“To imagine writing as absence seems to be a simple repetition, in transcendental terms, of both the religious principle of the inalterable and yet…

— Michel Foucault

“He went up to his room like a man who has been condemned to death. His mind was completely empty, and he was quite…

— Anonymous

“The truth is that, just as in the other imitative arts one imitation is always of one thing, so in poetry the story, as…

— Aristotle

If [man] thinks of the totality as constituted of independent fragments, then that is how his mind will tend to operate, but if he…

— David

“Indeed, we all know that the man who attentively contemplates a thing, who wants to see it as it is without changing anything, is…

— Alexandre Kojeve

“I have only to contemplate myself; man comes from nothing, passes through time, and disappears forever in the bosom of God. He is seen…

— Alexis de Tocqueville