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Jacques Barzun
The piano is...
The piano is the social instrument par excellence. . . . drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the...
The intellectuals' chief...
The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.
Source: The...
Art distills sensation...
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form -- or else it is not...
Great cultural changes...
Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
Source: The House...
In any assembly...
In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a...
Teaching is not...
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Source: In...
The test and...
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his...
Music is intended...
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and...
Only a great...
Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
Source: In
For the educated,...
For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the...