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.
BERNARD BERENSONYou can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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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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Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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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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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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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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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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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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We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: “Too bad we can’t get together more often”.
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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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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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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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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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