Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
BERNARD BERENSONI wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?
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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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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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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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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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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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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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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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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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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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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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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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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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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One can repent even of having repented.
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