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.
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Quotes
[edit]- 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
- Barry supported the lady, whose voice was not powerful enough for the big auditorium. I asked him how she succeeded—I was at another theatre. "Obscene but not heard," he answered.
- Steeplejack (1920), vol. 2, p. 157
- Cf. Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), ch. 35
