Describing Quote by Bernard Berenson Download Open image “[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.” — Bernard Berenson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Describing Home House Library Life Living room Rooms
The library is not, as some would have it, a place for the retiring of disposition or faint of heart. It is not an… — Eric Burns Copy Share Image
“The house I grew up in is one of a kind. It’s a bibliophile’s fantasy, and if the Library of Congress had a little… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“I wanted shelves for my books, and a finer chair for this desk. Of course there should be another library. What was a house… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Well," he said, "I say, now, as I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic stocked with all the furniture that… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“My brother, being an English gentleman, possesses a library in all his houses, though he never opens a book. This is called fidelity to… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans... in books… — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
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… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share
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… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share
I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
“A complete life may be one ending in so full identification with the non-self that there is no self to die.” — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful… — Pamela Stephenson Copy Share Image
Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star. — Dana Carvey Copy Share Image
With Gnaw I was thinking about traditional sculpture, about carving. I was also interested in figurative sculpture. I put those two ideas together and… — Janine Antoni Copy Share Image
Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Murder is a crime. Describing Murder is not. Sex is not a crime. Describing sex is. — Gershon Legman Copy Share Image
Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better. Knowing… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the abstract philosophical way. I think it is truer, or in any case, less misleading, to say that God is an old Jew with a white beard whom I love, than to say that God is the ground of… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share
When I returned to short stories, I'd started working on what is still central to much of what I try to do: putting myself… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
When in doubt, the rule of threes is a rule that plays well with all of storytelling. When describing a thing? No more than three details. A character's arc? Three beats. A story? Three acts. An act? Three sequences. A plot point culminating in a mystery of a twist? At least three mentions throughout the tale. This is an old… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share
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