[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
BERNARD BERENSONConsistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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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.
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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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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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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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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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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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I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
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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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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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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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The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
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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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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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