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R. G. Collingwood - From the Artists category:
The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work. (R. G. Collingwood)
R. G. Collingwood - From the Audience category:
The artist... tells his audience, at the risk of their displeasure, the secrets of their own hearts. (R. G. Collingwood)
R. G. Collingwood - From the Freedom category:
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do. (R. G. Collingwood)
R. G. Collingwood - From the Meaning category:
Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content. (R. G. Collingwood)
R. G. Collingwood - From the Questions category:
The romantic artist expects people to ask, 'What has he got to say?' The classical artist expects them to ask, 'How does he say it?' (R. G. Collingwood)
R. G. Collingwood - From the Universe category:
Art has no cosmology, it gives us no view of the universe; every distinct work of art gives us a little cosmology of its own, and no ingenuity will combine all these into a single whole. (R. G. Collingwood)
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