We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: “Too bad we can’t get together more often”.
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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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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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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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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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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The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
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German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.
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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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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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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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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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One can repent even of having repented.
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