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.
BERNARD BERENSONMiracles happen to those who believe in them.
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German 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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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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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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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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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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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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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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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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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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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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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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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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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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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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