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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."
"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."
"Music heals all forms of misery."
"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."
"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."
Explore more quotes by 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."
"Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art."
"An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can."
"The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind."
"In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years."
"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."
"If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real."
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