Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
BERNARD BERENSONArt 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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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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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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One can repent even of having repented.
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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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I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
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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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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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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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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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Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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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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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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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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