Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
BERNARD BERENSONIn figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are Tactile Values, Movement and Space Composition.
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You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
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We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: “Too bad we can’t get together more often”.
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One can repent even of having repented.
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In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are Tactile Values, Movement and Space Composition.
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I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?
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It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.
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Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique – without which however it cannot exist at all.
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I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.
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International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her.
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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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