Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
BERNARD BERENSONArt is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique – without which however it cannot exist at all.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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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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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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You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
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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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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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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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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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Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
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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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[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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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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I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
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Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes enemies of people, if not the eagerness, the passion for the same thing?
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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