A Man Ceases To Be A Beginner

The Romantic Artist Expects People To Ask, 'what Has He Got To Say?' The Classical Artist Expects Them To Ask, 'how Does He Say It?

The Value Of History. ..is That It Teaches Us What Man Has Done And Thus What Man Is.

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.

History Is For Human Self-knowledge. Knowing Yourself Means Knowing, First, What It Is To Be A Person; Secondly, Knowing What It Is To Be The Kind Of Person You Are; And Thirdly, Knowing What It Is To Be The Person You Are And Nobody Else Is. Knowing Yourself Means Knowing What You Can Do; And Since Nobody Knows What They Can Do Until They Try, The Only Clue To What Man Can Do Is What Man Has Done. The Value Of History, Then, Is That It Teaches Us What Man Has Done And Thus What Man Is.

The Aim Of Science Is To Apprehend This Purely Intelligible World As A Thing In Itself, An Object Which Is What It Is Independently Of All Thinking, And Thus Antithetical To The Sensible World.... The World Of Thought Is The Universal, The Timeless And Spaceless, The Absolutely Necessary, Whereas The World Of Sense Is The Contingent, The Changing And Moving Appearance Which Somehow Indicates Or Symbolizes It.