One can repent even of having repented.
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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I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
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As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.
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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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[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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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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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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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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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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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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You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
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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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The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
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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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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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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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