Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
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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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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[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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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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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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You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
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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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I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
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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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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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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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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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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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Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
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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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