There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man’s reason has never learnt to separate them.
BERNARD BERENSONHow 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.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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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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One can repent even of having repented.
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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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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Miracles happen to those who believe in 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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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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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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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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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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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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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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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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