Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. — Jacques Martin Barzun
An artist has every right – one may even say a duty – to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can. — Jacques Martin Barzun
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form – or else it is not art. — Jacques Martin Barzun
Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole. — Jacques Martin Barzun
If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive — Jacques Martin Barzun
In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle. — Jacques Martin Barzun
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. — Jacques Martin Barzun
Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred. — Jacques Martin Barzun
Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency — Jacques Martin Barzun
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers. — Jacques Martin Barzun
The test and the use of man’s education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. — Jacques Martin Barzun
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of america had better any time I break up with dawson or question him — Jacques Martin Barzun
If civilization has risen from the stone age, it can rise again from the wastepaper age. — Jacques Martin Barzun
