The 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.
BERNARD BERENSONThere are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man’s reason has never learnt to separate them.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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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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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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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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I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
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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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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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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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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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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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You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
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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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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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One can repent even of having repented.
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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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