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.
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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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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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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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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Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?
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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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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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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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You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
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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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The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
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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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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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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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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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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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