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 – names of familiar figures around the house. Jacques Barzun Read Quote
Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice. Jacques Barzun Read Quote
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. Jacques Barzun Read Quote
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form – or else it is not art. Jacques Barzun Read Quote
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 feet firmly planted in his mouth. Jacques Barzun Read Quote
The test and the use of man’s education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. Jacques Barzun Read Quote
Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred. Jacques Barzun Read Quote
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. Jacques Barzun Read Quote
