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The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.

Bernard Berenson

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.
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Art Concern Men
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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Genius Reaction Training
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Comparison History Truth
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
[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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House Library Rooms
I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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Taster Tea Way Wine
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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Affair People Way
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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Carpe Die Hands Time
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
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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Boast Cry Despair Hope
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Government Long Taxation
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
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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Age Desire Excess
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Creativity Ignorance Inspirational
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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During Early Fussed Hurried Minute

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