Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
BERNARD BERENSONThe average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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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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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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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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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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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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One can repent even of having repented.
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I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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