The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
BERNARD BERENSONMiracles 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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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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Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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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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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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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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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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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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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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Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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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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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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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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