James Huneker Quotes

James Gibbons Huneker was 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. From 1892 to 1899, he was the husband of the sculptor Clio Hinton. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. January 1857 – 9. February 1921
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James Huneker Quotes

“Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.”

James Huneker

The Pathos of Distance (1915), p. 120

“He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.”

James Huneker

The Pathos of Distance (1915), p. 257

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