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.
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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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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I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
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Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.
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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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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: “Too bad we can’t get together more often”.
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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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[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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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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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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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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I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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