Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
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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A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
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One can repent even of having repented.
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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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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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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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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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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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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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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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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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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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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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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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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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[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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