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.
BERNARD BERENSONThe ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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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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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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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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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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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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You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
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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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Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?
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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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A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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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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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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