Johan Huizinga Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• The things which can make life enjoyable remain the same. They are, now as before, reading, music, fine arts, travel, the enjoyment of nature, sports, fashion, social vanity (knightly orders, honorary offices, gatherings) and the intoxication of the senses.

  Johan Huizinga

  Music, Sports, Fashion

• The art of watching has become mere skill at rapid apperception and understanding of continuously changing visual images. The younger generation has acquired this cinematic perception to an amazing degree.

  Johan Huizinga

  Art, Skills, Understanding

• In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

  Johan Huizinga

  Art, Taken, Europe

  Johan Huizinga (1972). “America; a Dutch historian's vision, from afar and near”

• Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art.

  Johan Huizinga

  Art, History, Historical

• What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.

  Johan Huizinga

  Art, History, Common

  Johan Huizinga (1968). “Dutch civilisation in the seventeenth century, and other essays”

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