We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: “Too bad we can’t get together more often”.
BERNARD BERENSONIn 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.
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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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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Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?
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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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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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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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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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The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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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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Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
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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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