Quotes of Bernard Berenson - somelinesforyou

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

- Bernard Berenson

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

- Bernard Berenson

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

- Bernard Berenson

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

- Bernard Berenson

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

- Bernard Berenson

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

- Bernard Berenson

“ 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

“ I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passers-by to drop their unused minutes into it. ”

- Bernard Berenson

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

- Bernard Berenson

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

- Bernard Berenson

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

- Bernard Berenson

“ As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth. ”

- Bernard Berenson

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

- Bernard Berenson

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

- Bernard Berenson

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

- Bernard Berenson

“ 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

“ 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

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

- Bernard Berenson

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

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

- Bernard Berenson

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

- Bernard Berenson

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

- Bernard Berenson

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

- Bernard Berenson

“ The best performance improvement is the transition from the non-working state to the working state. ”

- Bernard Berenson

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

- Bernard Berenson

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

- Bernard Berenson

“ 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

“ 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
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