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.
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… - Bernard Berenson
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…
- Bernard Berenson
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science. - Bernard Berenson
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them. - Bernard Berenson
There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.
Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. Wha… - Bernard Berenson
Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. Wha…
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. - Bernard Berenson
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.
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. - Bernard Berenson
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities. - Bernard Berenson
Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
Taste begins when appetite is satisfied. - Bernard Berenson
Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
The Renaissance had resulted in the emancipation of the individual, in making him feel that the universe had no other purpose than his happiness. Thi… - Bernard Berenson
The Renaissance had resulted in the emancipation of the individual, in making him feel that the universe had no other purpose than his happiness. Thi…
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