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Freya Stark, born on January 31, 1893, and died on May 9, 1993, was a renowned British explorer. She is best known for her expeditions in the Middle East, where she conducted in-depth research on local culture, history, and geography.

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“A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.”

Art Lying Values Art Is Weakness Clouds Grass Works Of Art Brotherhood Static Evanescence

Book:Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

Source: Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

“The language of salesmanship was no doubt born with the first fashions in fig leaves in the garden of Eden. A strange concept has grown around it: if something is to be sold, inaccuracy is not immoral. Hence the art of advertisement - untruthfulness combined with repetition.”

Ifs Firsts Art Language Born Doubt Fashion Strange Concepts Garden Advertising No Doubt Repetition Immoral Eden Advertisements Garden Of Eden Figs Salesmanship Untruthfulness

Author:Freya Stark

“The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his art; and when he turns his back on his own suffering, he denies the very laws of his being and closes the door on everything that can ever make him great.”

Art Law Artist Suffering Turns Doors Sorrow Capacity Depth Deny Great Art Great Artist Reception

Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.”

Art Left Speak Silence Painting Art Is Notes Active Architecture Void Utterance Left Out Silence Speaks

Book:the zodiac arch

Source: the zodiac arch

“It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.”

Art Life Is Evil Goodness Absence Good And Evil Depressing Badness

Book:Baghdad Sketches: Journeys Through Iraq

Source: Baghdad Sketches: Journeys Through Iraq

“Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.”

Art Absence Ingredients Family Life Dose

Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.”

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own traveling brotherhood.”

Source: Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

“You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.”

Ifs Knows May Art Spirit Accepting Wise Goes On Offers Travel Streams

Author:Freya Stark

“The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.”

Art Values Wish Common Gains Fellows Fundamentals Ease

Book:Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

Source: Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

“On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.”

World Years Art Philosophy Whole Light Age Young Quiet Abstract Regions Truthful Pale Doorways Young And Old

Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.”

Art Advertising Repetition Untruthfulness

Author:Freya Stark

About the Author

Born: January 31, 1893
Died: May 9, 1993
Known for: Explorer
Quotes: 126

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The Journey's Echo: SelectionsRelated source material

the zodiac archRelated source material

Perseus In The Wind: A Life of TravelRelated source material

The Lycian ShoreRelated source material

A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through YemenRelated source material

Baghdad Sketches: Journeys Through IraqRelated source material

Ionia: A QuestRelated source material

Letters: New worlds for old, 1943-46Related source material

Letters: The furnace and the cup, 1914-30Related source material

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