Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes enemies of people, if not the eagerness, the passion for the same thing?
BERNARD BERENSONWe usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: “Too bad we can’t get together more often”.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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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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I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
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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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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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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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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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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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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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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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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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You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
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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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