Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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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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You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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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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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.
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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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[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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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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Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes enemies of people, if not the eagerness, the passion for the same thing?
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