Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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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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The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
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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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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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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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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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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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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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Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique – without which however it cannot exist at all.
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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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Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?
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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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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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