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art historian
Genius is the...
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
Source: In...
Miracles happen to...
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
Source: In New York Times Book...
Art is mind...
Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it...
I would I...
I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted...
Life has taught...
Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated but for our...
Consistency requires you...
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Source:...
Psychoanalysts are not...
Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral...
Between truth and...
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
Source: In
I would willingly...
I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passers-by to drop their unused minutes into...
A complete life...
A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the nonself that there is no self left to...
I am only...
I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
Source: Sunset...
When everything else...
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the...
From childhood on...
From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament. . . . The dream implied taking life ritually as...
German is of...
German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English,...
Government is the...
Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most...