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.
BERNARD BERENSONIt makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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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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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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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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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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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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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.
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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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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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One can repent even of having repented.
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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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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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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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There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man’s reason has never learnt to separate them.
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