Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
BERNARD BERENSONThe 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.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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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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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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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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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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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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As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.
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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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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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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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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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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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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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