Quotes by Robin G. Collingwood

Robin G. Collingwood

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.

Horse

Learning

Science

All history is the history of thought.

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.

Art

Giving

Views

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

Art

Community

Medicine

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.

Children

Growing Up

Lying

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

Art

Classical Art

Form

Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way.

Generations

History

Way

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.

Mean

Men

Self

If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will be poor in ideas. If he could take what he wants wherever he could find it, as Euripides and Dante and Michelangelo and Shakespeare and Bach were free, his larder would always be full, and his cookery might be worth tasting.

Artist

Effort

Ideas

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Issues

Thank God

Thank You God

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Art

Artist

Bottom

Century

Chiefs

Children

Classical Art

Community

Dance

Dancing

Desire

Doe

Done

Effort

Form

Freedom

Generations

Giving

Growing Up

Heart

History

Horse

Ideas

Inspirational

Instant

Intelligent

Issues

Law

Learning

Lying

Mean

Medicine

Men

Mind

Mistake

Mother

Motivational

Moving

Nature

Paradoxical

Parenthood

Past

People

Perfect

Psychology

Purpose

Risk

Science

Self

Shame

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Quotes by Robin G. Collingwood

Robin G. Collingwood

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.

All history is the history of thought.

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.

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

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.

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

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