Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
BERNARD BERENSONBoast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.
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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?
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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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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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One can repent even of having repented.
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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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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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German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.
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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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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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The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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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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[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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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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