"The ultimate justification of the work of art……" — Bernard Berenson
"The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself."
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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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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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