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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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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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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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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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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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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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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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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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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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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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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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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I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?
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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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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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