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.
BERNARD BERENSONGerman 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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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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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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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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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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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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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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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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The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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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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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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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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