Jacques Barzun Quotes (11 quotations)
1. Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art. - Jacques Barzun
2. Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine. - Jacques Barzun
3. Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole. - Jacques Barzun
4. In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation. - Jacques Barzun
5. In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. - Jacques Barzun
6. It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. - Jacques Barzun
7. Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith. - Jacques Barzun
8. Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. - Jacques Barzun
9. The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute. - Jacques Barzun
10. When your work speaks for itself, get out of the way. - Jacques Barzun
11. Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams. - Jacques Barzun
2. Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine. - Jacques Barzun
3. Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole. - Jacques Barzun
4. In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation. - Jacques Barzun
5. In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. - Jacques Barzun
6. It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. - Jacques Barzun
7. Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith. - Jacques Barzun
8. Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. - Jacques Barzun
9. The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute. - Jacques Barzun
10. When your work speaks for itself, get out of the way. - Jacques Barzun
11. Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams. - Jacques Barzun
