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Bernard Berenson Quotes: "No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle."

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 Quotes: "You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature."

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.




Bernard Berenson Quotes: "Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago."

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.



Bernard Berenson Quotes: "Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine."

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.




Bernard Berenson Quotes: "A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die."

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 Quotes: "I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours."

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.



Bernard Berenson Quotes: "Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity."

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.




Bernard Berenson Quotes: "Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope."

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.



Bernard Berenson Quotes: "There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them."

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 Quotes: "It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore."

It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.



Bernard Berenson Quotes: "I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?"

I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?



Bernard Berenson Quotes: "International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers."

International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.




Bernard Berenson Quotes: "I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters."

I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.



Bernard Berenson Quotes: "Taste begins when appetite is satisfied."

Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.



Bernard Berenson Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training."

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.



Bernard Berenson Quotes: "The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself."

The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.



Bernard Berenson Quotes: "When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase."

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.



Bernard Berenson Quotes: "From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy."

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 Quotes: "Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities."

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.



Bernard Berenson Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: "Too bad we can't get together more often"."

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 Quotes: "Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her."

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her.



Bernard Berenson Quotes: "The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others."

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.



Bernard Berenson Quotes: "Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed."

Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.



Bernard Berenson Quotes: "I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it."

I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.



Bernard Berenson Quotes: "Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second."

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.



Bernard Berenson Quotes: "One can repent even of having repented."

One can repent even of having repented.



Bernard Berenson Quotes: "Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable."

Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.



Bernard Berenson Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached."

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.



Bernard Berenson Quotes: "Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science."

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.



Bernard Berenson Quotes: "A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die."

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die.



Bernard Berenson Quotes: "Governments last as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed."

Governments last as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.



Bernard Berenson Quotes: "I wonder whether Art has a higher function than to make me feel appreciate and enjoy natural objects for their art value?"

I wonder whether Art has a higher function than to make me feel appreciate and enjoy natural objects for their art value?



Bernard Berenson Quotes: "We define genius as the capacity for productive reaction against one's training."

We define genius as the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.



Bernard Berenson Quotes: "The institution that had the greatest effect on Berenson's education was the Boston public library, the first in the country that allowed people to take books home to read them."

The institution that had the greatest effect on Berenson's education was the Boston public library, the first in the country that allowed people to take books home to read them.



Bernard Berenson Quotes: "Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed."

Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.



Bernard Berenson Quotes: "I wish I could stand on a busy corner hat in hand and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours."

I wish I could stand on a busy corner hat in hand and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.



Bernard Berenson Quotes: "A complete life may be one ending in so full identification with the non-self that there is no self to die."

A complete life may be one ending in so full identification with the non-self that there is no self to die.