The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
BERNARD BERENSONPsychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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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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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself.
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Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
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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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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.
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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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How 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.
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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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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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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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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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I 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.
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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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