Sydney J. Harris Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Art, Empathy, Listening

• The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Art, Knowing, Made

  Sydney J. Harris (1972). “For the Time Being”

• Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it be picked for you—either by the Establishment, or by the Rebels. Conformity of Hip is no better than Conformity of Square.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Art, Squares, Choices

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

• All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Running, Art, Long

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Why are we willing to accept a new mathematical formula we don't understand as the product of a brilliant mind, while rejecting a new art form we don't understand as the product of a deranged mind?

  Sydney J. Harris

  Art, Mind, Brilliant

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