Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
BERNARD BERENSONThe 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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The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
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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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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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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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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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[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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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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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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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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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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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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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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Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
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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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