One can repent even of having repented.
BERNARD BERENSONI am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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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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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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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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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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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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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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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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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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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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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 ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
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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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