[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
BERNARD BERENSONI 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.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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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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Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?
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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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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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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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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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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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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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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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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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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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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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You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
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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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