James Gibbons Huneker Quotes

American music critic (1857–1921)

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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Alternative Names: James Huneker • James G. Huneker

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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.

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

Our country has liberty without license, and authority without despotism. She rears no wall to exclude the stranger from coming among us. She has few frowning fortifications to repel the invader, for she is at peace with all the world.