The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
BERNARD BERENSONGerman 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.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.
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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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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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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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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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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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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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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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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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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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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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The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
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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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