A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die. Bernard Berenson More Quotes by Bernard Berenson More Quotes From Bernard Berenson Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed. Bernard Berenson taxation government long No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle. Bernard Berenson our-world doe art 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. Bernard Berenson passion stress healing 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. Bernard Berenson self men lying 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 calumny-is encouragement hands We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: "Too bad we can't get together more often". Bernard Berenson get-together funeral together 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. Bernard Berenson excess age desire 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. Bernard Berenson flower eye spring The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others. Bernard Berenson doe europe average 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. Bernard Berenson degrees stones giving Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable. Bernard Berenson momentary government art 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 creative play years 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. Bernard Berenson would-be home lying Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities. Bernard Berenson taught quality life I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value? Bernard Berenson appreciate wonder art Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine. Bernard Berenson patient mind believe Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science. Bernard Berenson concern men art 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? Bernard Berenson passion people enemy 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. Bernard Berenson enchantment movement space One can repent even of having repented. Bernard Berenson repent
