From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament… the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
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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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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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 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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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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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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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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The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
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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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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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International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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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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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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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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