Quotes by Bernard Berenson - Page 1

One can repent even of having repented.
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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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Appetite
Satisfied
Taste
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
Bernard Berenson / Art Critic
Optimistic
Positive
Believe
Law Of Attraction
Who
Those
Them
Happen
Miracles
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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History
Truth
Comparison
Search
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[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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House
Library
Rooms
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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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Tea
Way
Wine
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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
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Capacity
Genius
Reactions
Training
Reaction
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Inspirational
Consistency
Creativity
Ignorance
Ignorant
Today
Year
Requires
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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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Art
Men
Concern
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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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Hope
Boast
Cry
Despair
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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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Humanity
Literature
Writing
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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Government
Long
Taxation
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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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Average
Doe
Europe
Succeeds
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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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Doe
Fun
Parody
Universe
Almost
Almost Anything
Caricature
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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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Art
Helping
Justification
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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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Time
Busy
Carpe Diem
Hands
Hours
Stand
Beg
Corner
Hand
Hat
Wasted
Throw
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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
Bernard Berenson / Art Critic
Appreciation
Beauty
Appreciate
Diminish
Increase
Redemption
Seems
Everything Else
Mental
Physical
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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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Life
Quality
Faults
Taught
Disliked
Qualities
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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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Life
Time
Hands
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A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
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Aging
Identification
Left
May
Oneself
Self
Die
Complete
Full
Ending
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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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Art
Doe
Our World
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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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Men
Destiny
Fate
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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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Art
Government
Momentary
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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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Art
Appreciate
Wonder
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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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Believe
Cerebral
Mind
Patient
Minds
Occupied
Patients
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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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Dream
Childhood
Fatherhood
Holy
Implied
Sacrament
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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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Funeral
Get Together
Together
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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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Art
Mind
Technique
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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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Affair
People
Way
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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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Fear
Believe
Prayer
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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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Age
Desire
Excess
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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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Space
Enchantment
Movement
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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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Happiness
Jobs
Humble
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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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Degrees
Giving
Stones
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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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Enemy
Passion
People
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The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.
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Healing
Passion
Stress
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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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Home
Lying
Would Be
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Art, in the widest sense of the word, is the instrument Hellenism has used and would use for that purpose. All the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visual arts, the theatre, must work singly and together to create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, the free man.
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Art
Men
Together
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I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigour of spring, as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artefact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival...each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.
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Eye
Flower
Spring
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It was a morning in early summer. A silver haze shimmered and trembled over the lime trees. The air was laden with their fragrance. The temperature was like a caress. I remember - I need not recall - that I climbed up a tree stump and felt suddenly immersed in Itness. I did not call it by that name. I had no need for words. It and I were one.
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Morning
Air
Summer
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Pessimism like calumny is easy to do, and attracts immediate attention. The gossiper and the writer may find this out soon enough, and a little encouragement from the current mood will procure them successes that bring endless imitators in their trail. On the other hand saying good things about life in general and individuals in particular and making it interesting is a serious task which few can achieve with credit.
Bernard Berenson / Art Critic
Encouragement
Calumny Is
Hands
Soon Enough
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The Renaissance had resulted in the emancipation of the individual, in making him feel that the universe had no other purpose than his happiness. This brought an entirely new answer to the question, 'Why should I do this or that?' It used to be, 'Because self-instituted authority command you.' The answer now was, 'Because it is good for men.' In this lies our greatest debt to the Renaissance, that it instituted the welfare of men as the end of all action.
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Men
Lying
Self
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Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed? 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. 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.
Bernard Berenson / Art Critic
Creative
Play
Years
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