One can repent even of having repented.
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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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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[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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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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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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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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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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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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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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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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