Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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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 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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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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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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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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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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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.
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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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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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I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
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[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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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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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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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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