Bernard Berenson Quotes
The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
Quotes to Explore
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Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.
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That just sounds so funny, A-list. Really, I'm a mom, and that's how I'm going to be all my life.
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I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.
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Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.
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The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.
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And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.
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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
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The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power for the men and party in power.
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Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
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It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective Constitutional spheres; avoiding in the exercise of the Powers of one department to encroach upon another.
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England is my home. I could never leave. I'd miss my family and friends too much.
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When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.
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When you're surrounded by feathers and sequins and ridiculous Lycra outfits, it's impossible not to have a smile on your face.
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The best style is the least noticeable.
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A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.
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The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
