A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
BERNARD BERENSONThe 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.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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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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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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Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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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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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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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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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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There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself.
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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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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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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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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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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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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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