Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
BERNARD BERENSONPsychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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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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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 am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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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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It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.
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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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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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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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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
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There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself.
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From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament… the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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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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There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man’s reason has never learnt to separate them.
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