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 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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You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
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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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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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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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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?
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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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”.
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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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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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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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One can repent even of having repented.
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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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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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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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The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
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