Henry Moore (1898–1986) English artist
Quote of Moore from his text 'The sculptor speaks' (1937), p. unknown
1925 - 1940
“He was an instance that a complete genius and a complete rogue can be formed before a man is of age.”
Horace Walpole, letter to William Mason dated July 24, 1778; published in Horace Walpole (ed. William Hadley) Selected Letters (London: Everyman's Library, 1963) p. 191.
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English poet, forger 1752–1770Related quotes
“The education of a man is never completed until he dies.”
Robert E. Lee (1807–1870) Confederate general in the Civil War
As quoted in Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 175
Henry Moore (1898–1986) English artist
Quote of Henri Moore in 'Unpublished notes', c. 1925-1926, HMF archive; as cited in Henry Moore writings and Conversations, ed. Alan Wilkinson, University of California Press, California 2002, p. 96
1925 - 1940
Friedrich Schiller book On the Aesthetic Education of Man
Letter 15
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)
Vannevar Bush book As We May Think
As We May Think (1945)
Context: Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems. He has built a civilization so complex that he needs to mechanize his record more fully if he is to push his experiment to its logical conclusion and not merely become bogged down part way there by overtaxing his limited memory. His excursion may be more enjoyable if he can reacquire the privilege of forgetting the manifold things he does not need to have immediately at hand, with some assurance that he can find them again if they prove important.