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.
BERNARD BERENSONEnemies 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?
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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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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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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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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You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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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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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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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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The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
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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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