What did Freya Stark mean by: It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing. Freya Stark Explorer · United Kingdom Copy
The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Freya Stark, Alternatives, Peace, Resolution, 0 Freya Stark Explorer · United Kingdom
To feel, and think, and learn – learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Freya Stark, Feelings, Learning, Youthfulness, 0 Freya Stark Explorer · United Kingdom
The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Freya Stark, Belonging, Comfort, Exploration, 0 Freya Stark Explorer · United Kingdom
This is excellence – the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Freya Stark, Excellence, Integrity, Pursuit, 0 Freya Stark Explorer · United Kingdom
+ Nearly all trouble comes from mis-timing. Author, October 26, 2023January 2, 2025, Freya Stark, Consequences, Timing, Trouble, 0 Freya Stark Explorer · United Kingdom
The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Freya Stark, Adventure, Exploration, Freedom, 0 Freya Stark Explorer · United Kingdom
+ Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature. Author, August 29, 2023January 2, 2025, Freya Stark, Exploration, Persistence, Resilience, 0 Freya Stark Explorer · United Kingdom
+ All our acts have sacramental possibilities. Author, June 1, 2023January 2, 2025, Freya Stark, Actions, Potential, Sacred, 0 Freya Stark Explorer · United Kingdom
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it. Read explanation Jean Fautrier Painter · France