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.
BERNARD BERENSONAs I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.
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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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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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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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.
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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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One can repent even of having repented.
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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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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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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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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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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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[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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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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