James Huneker

James Gibbons Huneker (31 January 1857 – 9 February 1921) was an American music writer and critic. Huneker was one of the first to write of Gauguin, Ibsen, Wagner, Nietzsche, France, van Gogh, and George Moore.

Quotes

• Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.
  • The Pathos of Distance (1915), p. 120

• He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
  • The Pathos of Distance (1915), p. 257