Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
BERNARD BERENSONTaste begins when appetite is satisfied.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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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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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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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her.
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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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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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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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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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 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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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 would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
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