Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?
BERNARD BERENSONInternational 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.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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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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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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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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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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One can repent even of having repented.
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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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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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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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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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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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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
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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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