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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”.

Bernard Berenson

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
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Creativity Ignorance Inspirational
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
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
You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
BERNARD BERENSON

Caricature Doe Fun Parody
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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Genius Reaction Training
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Believe Optimistic Positive
The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
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Art Helping Justification
Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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Appetite Satisfied Taste
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
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 was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself.
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Appointed Confidence Leisure Use
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
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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Art Instrument Mind Technique
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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Art Concern Men

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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