Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
BERNARD BERENSONBetween truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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One can repent even of having repented.
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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.
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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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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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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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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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