Robin G. Collingwood
Robin G. Collingwood
Robin G. Collingwood quotes about
artist people doe
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?
children want taught
The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have.
children growing-up lying
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.
art medicine community
Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness
men history done
The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.
chiefs century twentieth-century
The chief business of twentieth-century philosopy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.
men shame bottom
What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.
mean men self
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.
art form classical-art
Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.
past history mind
The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.
science men beginners
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.
success men perfect
Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.
issues thank-god revolutionary
Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.