The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
BERNARD BERENSONGovernment is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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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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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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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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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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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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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself.
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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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One can repent even of having repented.
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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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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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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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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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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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