Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
BERNARD BERENSONI would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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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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I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
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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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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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One can repent even of having repented.
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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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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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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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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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The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
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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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[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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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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