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.
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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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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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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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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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 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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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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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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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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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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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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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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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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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.
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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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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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Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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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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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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One can repent even of having repented.
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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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Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?
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