Bernard Berenson Quotes About Art
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No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.
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Art, in the widest sense of the word, is the instrument Hellenism has used and would use for that purpose. All the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visual arts, the theatre, must work singly and together to create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, the free man.
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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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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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I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?
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Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
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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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