I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?
BERNARD BERENSONGovernment is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
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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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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?
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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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I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
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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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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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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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We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: “Too bad we can’t get together more often”.
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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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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One can repent even of having repented.
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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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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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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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