Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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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One can repent even of having repented.
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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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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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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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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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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 am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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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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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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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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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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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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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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