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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.

Bernard Berenson

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
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 BERENSON

Appear Believe Fear Mary Prayer
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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Believe Intestine Mind Patient
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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Healing Passion Sorrow Stress
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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Art Instrument Mind Technique
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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Enemy Greater Interest Passion People
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
One can repent even of having repented.
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Even Happen One Repent
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
BERNARD BERENSON

Art Concern Men
A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
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Aging Die May Self
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
BERNARD BERENSON

Believe Optimistic Positive
I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
BERNARD BERENSON

Carpe Die Hands Time
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
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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Country Degrees Giving Language Stones
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
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.
BERNARD BERENSON

Affair People Way

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