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.
BERNARD BERENSONBoast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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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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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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I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
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[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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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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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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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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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 I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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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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One can repent even of having repented.
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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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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