Category - Jacques Barzun

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Jacques Barzun

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

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Jacques Barzun

I have always been – I think any student of history almost inevitably is – a cheerful pessimist.

– Jacques Barzun

Jacques Barzun

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

Jacques Barzun

It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.

– Jacques Barzun

Jacques Barzun

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.

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Jacques Barzun

After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge remote circle, and no hills intervene.

– Jacques Barzun

Jacques Barzun

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.

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Jacques Barzun

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap.

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Jacques Barzun

An artist has every right – one may even say a duty – to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.

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Jacques Barzun

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.

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Jacques Barzun

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

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Jacques Barzun

The intellectuals’ chief cause of anguish are one another’s works.

– Jacques Barzun

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