As happens with sports and hobbies, his enjoyment was solemnized by expertise, the rites of comparing, collating, a half-deliberate parody of scholarship like the recitation of batting averages.

To be a child is something one learns, as one learns the names of rivers or the kings of France. Childhood, for a child, is a sort of falseness, woodenness, st…

We all know in our gut that art educates. In other societies, they're aware of the power it has of speaking directly to the masses, teaching them to be better …

Calling someone a monster does not make him more guilty; it makes him less so by classing him with beasts and devils.

Only the skilled can judge the skilfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.

Let Each Man Exercise The Art He Knows.

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.