James Huneker
James Huneker
James Gibbons Hunekerwas an American art, book, music, and theater critic. A colorful individual and an ambitious writer, he was "an American with a great mission," in the words of his friend, the critic Benjamin De Casseres, and that mission was to educate Americans about the best cultural achievements, native and European, of his time...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth31 January 1857
CountryUnited States of America
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Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.
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Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.
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Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.
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Let there be no mincing of comparisons in this assertion. Not Turner, not Monet, painted so directly blinding shafts of sunlight as has this Spaniard.
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Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.
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There are people who don't say a thing and sound magnificent!
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The chaste woman who teases is worse than a streetwalker.
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Married men make the best husbands.
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We are all snobs of the Infinite, parvenus of the Eternal.
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Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.
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Lawyers earn a living by the sweat of browbeating others.
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All men of action are dreamers.
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He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.