Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
BERNARD BERENSONI 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.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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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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Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?
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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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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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The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
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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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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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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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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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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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Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her.
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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 would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
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