I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?
BERNARD BERENSONTaste begins when appetite is satisfied.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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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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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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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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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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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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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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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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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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The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
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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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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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Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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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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Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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