"The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm……" — Bernard Berenson
"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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Bernard Berenson
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32 Quotes by Bernard Berenson
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I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their…
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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 never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired…
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or…
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness…
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A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self…
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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
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There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to…
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