Bernard Berenson quotes

Bernard Berenson was an American art historian and critic, renowned for his expertise in Renaissance art. His scholarship and connoisseurship greatly influenced the field of art attribution and collecting. He became a leading authority on Italian painting and advised major collectors around the world. Here are 15 of his quotes:

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. (Bernard Berenson)
Taste begins when appetite is satisfied. View quote
Bernard Berenson
I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. View quote
Bernard Berenson
Miracles happen to those who believe in them. View quote
Bernard Berenson
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope. View quote
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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase. View quote
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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training. View quote
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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities. View quote
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A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die. View quote
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second. View quote
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From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy. (Bernard Berenson)
You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature. View quote
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The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others. View quote
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Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine. View quote
Bernard Berenson
Florentine painting between Giotto and Michelangelo contains the names of such artists as Orcagna, Masaccio, Fra Filippo, Pollaiuolo, Verrocchio, Leonardo, and Botticelli. ... Forget that they were painters, they remain great sculptors; forget that they were sculptors, and still they remain architects, poets, and even men of science. View quote
Bernard Berenson

Bernard Berenson

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Occupation: American Historian
Born: June 26, 1865
Died: October 6, 1959
Quotes count: 15
Wikipedia: Bernard Berenson

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