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Bernard Berenson Quotes

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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) Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity  (Bernard Berenson Quotes) Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science  (Bernard Berenson Quotes) Miracles happen to those who believe in them  (Bernard Berenson Quotes) Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training  (Bernard Berenson Quotes) Taste begins when appetite is satisfied  (Bernard Berenson Quotes) Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago  (Bernard Berenson Quotes) Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second  (Bernard Berenson Quotes) If only I could stand on a street corner with my hat in my hand, and get people to throw their wasted time into it!  (Bernard Berenson Quotes) 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 Quotes) Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable  (Bernard Berenson Quotes) I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours  (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  (Bernard Berenson Quotes) The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself  (Bernard Berenson Quotes) I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it  (Bernard Berenson Quotes) All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man  (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?  (Bernard Berenson Quotes) 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 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  (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  (Bernard Berenson Quotes) There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man’s reason has never learned to separate them  (Bernard Berenson Quotes) You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature  (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  (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  (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  (Bernard Berenson Quotes) Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope  (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  (Bernard Berenson Quotes) When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase  (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  (Bernard Berenson Quotes)