You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
BERNARD BERENSONInternational 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 ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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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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How can I regain even for a minute the feeling of ample leisure I had during my early, my creative years? Then I seldom felt fussed, or hurried.
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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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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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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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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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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 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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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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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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Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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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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