Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?
BERNARD BERENSONFrom 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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There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself.
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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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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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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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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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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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Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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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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As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
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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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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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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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