Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
BERNARD BERENSONBoast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man’s reason has never learnt to separate them.
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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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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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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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You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
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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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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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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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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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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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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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