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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.

Bernard Berenson

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
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
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
One can repent even of having repented.
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Even Happen One Repent
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
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
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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Genius Reaction Training
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Comparison History Truth
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
I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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Taster Tea Way Wine
From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament… the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
BERNARD BERENSON

Childhood Dream Fatherhood
Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?
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Creative Feeling Free Play Years
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Believe Optimistic Positive
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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Boast Cry Despair Hope
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
BERNARD BERENSON

Art Concern Men

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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