Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
BERNARD BERENSONFrom childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament… the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are Tactile Values, Movement and Space Composition.
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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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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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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?
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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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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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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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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
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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 would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
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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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Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
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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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