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I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.

Bernard Berenson

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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Genius Reaction Training
Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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Appetite Satisfied Taste
From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament… the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
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Childhood Dream Fatherhood
There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man’s reason has never learnt to separate them.
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Destiny Fate Men
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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Enchantment Movement Painting Source Space
Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
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Life Quality Taught
Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
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Art Government Momentary
A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
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Aging Die May Self
[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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House Library Rooms
No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art…our world would have remained a jungle.
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Art Jungle Our Remained World
As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.
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Deliberately Home Lying Myself
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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Boast Cry Despair Hope
Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
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Believe Intestine Mind Patient
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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Appreciate Art Enjoy Value Wonder
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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Funeral Get Together
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Creativity Ignorance Inspirational

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