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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.

Bernard Berenson

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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.
BERNARD BERENSON

Enchantment Source
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
How can I regain even for a minute the feeling of ample leisure I had during my early, my creative years? Then I seldom felt fussed, or hurried.
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During Early Fussed Hurried Minute
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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Reaction
The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.

BERNARD BERENSON

The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.
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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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Taught
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
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Helping Justification
One can repent even of having repented.
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Even One Repent
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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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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Enjoy
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Optimistic
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 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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Fatherhood
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 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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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
BERNARD BERENSON
German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.
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Degrees Language Stones

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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