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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.

Bernard Berenson

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.
BERNARD BERENSON

Affair People Way
Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes enemies of people, if not the eagerness, the passion for the same thing?
BERNARD BERENSON

Enemy Greater Interest Passion People
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.
BERNARD BERENSON

During Early Fussed Hurried Minute
The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
BERNARD BERENSON

Art Helping Justification
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.
BERNARD BERENSON

Appear Believe Fear Mary Prayer
Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?
BERNARD BERENSON

Creative Feeling Free Play Years
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
BERNARD BERENSON

Art Concern Men
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Believe Optimistic Positive
The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
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Average Country Feel Oppressing
A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
BERNARD BERENSON

Aging Die May Self
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
BERNARD BERENSON

Creativity Ignorance Inspirational
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
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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Humanity Literature Writing
[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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House Library Rooms
Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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Appetite Satisfied Taste
One can repent even of having repented.
BERNARD BERENSON

Even Happen One Repent

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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