Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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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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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Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?
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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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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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We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: “Too bad we can’t get together more often”.
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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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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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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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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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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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I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
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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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