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Robin G Collingwood Quotes

The artist must prophesy not in the sense that he foretells things to come, but in the sense that he tells his audience, at the risk of their displeasure, the secrets of their own hearts Picture Quote #1

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do Picture Quote #1

The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have Picture Quote #1

As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the admiration of the virtuosi, but as the visible record, lying about the house, of an attempt to solve a definite problem in painting Picture Quote #1

What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid Picture Quote #1

Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do Picture Quote #1

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue Picture Quote #1

Art has no cosmology, it gives us no view of the universe; every distinct work of art gives us a little cosmology of its own, and no ingenuity will combine all these into a single whole Picture Quote #1

The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work Picture Quote #1

The dance is the mother of all languages Picture Quote #1

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that... he is going to be a beginner all his life Picture Quote #1

Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood Picture Quote #1

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What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid Picture Quote #1

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content Picture Quote #1

Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way Picture Quote #1

Art is community’s medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness Picture Quote #1

The value of history... is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is Picture Quote #1

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The artist must prophesy not in the sense that he foretells things to come, but in the sense that he tells his audience, at the risk of their displeasure, the secrets of their own hearts (Robin G Collingwood Quotes) Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do. (Robin G Collingwood Quotes) The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have (Robin G Collingwood Quotes) As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the admiration of the virtuosi, but as the visible record, lying about the house, of an attempt to solve a definite problem in painting. (Robin G Collingwood Quotes) What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid. (Robin G Collingwood Quotes) Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do (Robin G Collingwood Quotes) Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue (Robin G Collingwood Quotes) Art has no cosmology, it gives us no view of the universe; every distinct work of art gives us a little cosmology of its own, and no ingenuity will combine all these into a single whole (Robin G Collingwood Quotes) The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work (Robin G Collingwood Quotes) The dance is the mother of all languages (Robin G Collingwood Quotes) A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that... he is going to be a beginner all his life (Robin G Collingwood Quotes) Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood (Robin G Collingwood Quotes) What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid (Robin G Collingwood Quotes) Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content (Robin G Collingwood Quotes) Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way (Robin G Collingwood Quotes) Art is community’s medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness (Robin G Collingwood Quotes) The value of history... is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is (Robin G Collingwood Quotes)