I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?
BERNARD BERENSONBetween truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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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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[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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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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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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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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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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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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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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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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You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
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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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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.
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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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