Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
BERNARD BERENSONLife has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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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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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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Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?
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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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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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Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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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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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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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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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
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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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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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