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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.

Bernard Berenson

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
BERNARD BERENSON

Caricature Doe Fun Parody
The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
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Art Helping Justification
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
BERNARD BERENSON

Comparison History Truth
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
[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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House Library Rooms
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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Art Instrument Mind Technique
Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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Appetite Satisfied Taste
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Believe Optimistic Positive
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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Art Concern Men
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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Life Quality Taught
Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
BERNARD BERENSON

Believe Intestine Mind Patient
One can repent even of having repented.
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Even Happen One Repent
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Government Long Taxation
Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
BERNARD BERENSON

Art Government Momentary
I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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Taster Tea Way Wine
Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?
BERNARD BERENSON

Creative Feeling Free Play Years

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.

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