Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
BERNARD BERENSONI 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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Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?
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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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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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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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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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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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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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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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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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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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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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[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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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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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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