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

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

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Art, Limitations, Thinking

"History develops, art stands still."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Art, History

"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

Art, Husband, Job

"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Art, Poetry, Love, Emotion, Expression

"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

Flannery O'Connor, American Author

Art, Truth

"Music heals all forms of misery."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Art, Music, Healing, Comfort, Emotion

"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

Art, Being, Modernity

"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Art, Play, Success, Audience, Failure

"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."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Art, Music, Experience, Truth, Life

"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."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Art, Communication, Expression, Understanding

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."

Being, Intellect, Opinion, Privilege

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

Art, Meaning

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

Society, Artist, Duty, May, Right

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

Society, Hatred, Tolerance

"The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind."

Education, Exercise, Man, Mind

"Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy."

Mind, Tragedy

"In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years."

Work, Day, Teaching, 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."

Education, Injustice, Past, Style

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

Cause, Intellectuals

"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."

Life, Talk