
“I had not time to lick it into form, as a bear doth her young ones.”
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
Book II, Ch. 12. Apology for Raimond Sebond
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“I had not time to lick it into form, as a bear doth her young ones.”
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
“Mathematical activity has taken the forms of a science, a philosophy and an art.”
100 Years of Mathematics: a Personal Viewpoint (1981)
“Situation seems to be the mould in which men's characters are formed.”
Letter 23
Letters Written in Sweden (1796)
First Week, First Day. Compare: "I had not time to lick it into form, as a bear doth her young ones", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader.
La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)
“We like art forms that express our longing for union, and for a more perfect and beautiful world.”
Bittersweet, Chapter 2 at p. 36
“Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 226
Bill Moyers interview (2002)
Context: I used to say that arts were talked about in the arts and leisure page. Now, why would it be arts and leisure? Why do we think that arts are leisure? Why isn't it arts and science or arts and the most important thing in your life? I think that art has become a big scarlet letter in our culture.
It's a big "A." And it says, you are an elitist, you're effete, or whatever those things... do you know what I mean? It means you don't connect. And I don't believe that. I think we've patronized our audiences long enough.
You can do things that would bring people to another place and still get someone on a very daily mundane moving level but you don't have to separate art from the masses.