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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Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.Bernard Berenson
All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man
Bernard Berenson
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
Bernard Berenson
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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I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passers-by to drop their unused minutes into it.
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The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows
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