Jacques Barzun

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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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. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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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

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Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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

— Jacques Barzun

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Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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

— Jacques Barzun

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In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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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

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It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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