Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
BERNARD BERENSONI am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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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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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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The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
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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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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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A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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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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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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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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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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