Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by James Huneker

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer James Huneker.
Last updated on April 21, 2025.
James Huneker

James Gibbons Huneker was an American art, book, music, and theater critic. A colorful individual and an ambitious writer, he was "an American with a great mission," in the words of his friend, the critic Benjamin De Casseres, and that mission was to educate Americans about the best cultural achievements, native and European, of his time. From 1892 to 1899, he was the husband of the sculptor Clio Hinton.

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
All men of action are dreamers.
Scratch an artist and you surprise a child. — © James Huneker
Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.
Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.
Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.
Married men make the best husbands.
There are people who don't say a thing and sound magnificent!
Let there be no mincing of comparisons in this assertion. Not Turner, not Monet, painted so directly blinding shafts of sunlight as has this Spaniard.
We are all snobs of the Infinite, parvenus of the Eternal.
Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.
Lawyers earn a living by the sweat of browbeating others.
The chaste woman who teases is worse than a streetwalker.
Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.
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