We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: “Too bad we can’t get together more often”.
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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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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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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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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You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
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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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I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
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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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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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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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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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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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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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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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Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
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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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