There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man’s reason has never learnt to separate them.
BERNARD BERENSONGenius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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One can repent even of having repented.
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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?
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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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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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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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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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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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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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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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Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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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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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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Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
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