Bernard Berenson Quotes

• Los milagros ocurren a quienes creen en ellos.

  Bernard Berenson

  Positive, Believe, Optimistic

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

  Bernard Berenson

  Art, Helping, Justification

  Bernard Berenson (1958). “Essays in Appreciation”

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• La coherencia requiere que seas tan ignorante hoy como lo eras hace un año.

  Bernard Berenson

  Inspirational, Creativity, Ignorance

  Bernard Berenson (1962). “The Bernard Berenson Treasury: A Selection from the Works, Unpublished Writings, Letters, Diaries, and Journals of the Most Celebrated Humanist and Art Historian of Our Times, 1887-1958”

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

  Bernard Berenson

  Art, Men, Concern

  Bernard Berenson (1968). “The Italian Painters of the Renaissance”

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• Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.

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  Taste, Appetite, Satisfied

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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.

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  Life, Quality, Taught

  Bernard Berenson (1962). “The Bernard Berenson Treasury: A Selection from the Works, Unpublished Writings, Letters, Diaries, and Journals of the Most Celebrated Humanist and Art Historian of Our Times, 1887-1958”

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

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  Truth, History, Comparison

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• 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

  Suerte, Destino, Hombres

  "The world, the flesh & the devil" by Bernard Berenson, (p. 3), 1929.

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• El arte, en el sentido más amplio de la palabra, es el instrumento que el helenismo ha utilizado y utilizaría para ese fin. Todas las artes, la poesía, la música, el ritual, las artes visuales, el teatro, deben trabajar individual y conjuntamente para crear el arte más completo de todos, una sociedad humanizada, y su obra maestra, el hombre libre.

  Bernard Berenson

  Art, Men, Together

  "Aesthetics and History in the Visual Arts".

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

  Bernard Berenson

  Training, Genius, Reactions

  Bernard Berenson (1968). “Venetian and North Italian Schools”

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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.

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  Self, May, Aging

  Bernard Berenson (2013). “Sketch For A Self Portrait”, p.15, Read Books Ltd

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

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  Time, Carpe Diem, Hands

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• 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

  Primavera, Flor, Ojo

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• 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?

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  Passion, People, Enemy

  Bernard Berenson (1963). “Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958”, New York : Harcourt, Brace & World

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• One can repent even of having repented.

  Bernard Berenson

  Arrepiéntase

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• It was a morning in early summer. A silver haze shimmered and trembled over the lime trees. The air was laden with their fragrance. The temperature was like a caress. I remember - I need not recall - that I climbed up a tree stump and felt suddenly immersed in Itness. I did not call it by that name. I had no need for words. It and I were one.

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  Verano, Mañana, Aire

  Bernard Berenson (2013). “Sketch For A Self Portrait”, p.14, Read Books Ltd

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

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  Writing, Humanity, Literature

  Bernard Berenson (1962). “The Bernard Berenson Treasury: A Selection from the Works, Unpublished Writings, Letters, Diaries, and Journals of the Most Celebrated Humanist and Art Historian of Our Times, 1887-1958”

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• 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.

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  People, Way, Affair

  Bernard Berenson (1952). “Rumour and Reflection: 1941:1944”

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

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  Art, Appreciate, Wonder

  Bernard Berenson (2013). “Sketch For A Self Portrait”, p.105, Read Books Ltd

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

  Bernard Berenson

  Government, Long, Taxation

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• 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.

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  Happiness, Jobs, Humble

  Bernard Berenson (1963). “Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958”, New York : Harcourt, Brace & World

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• 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

  Art, Mind, Technique

  Bernard Berenson (1962). “The Bernard Berenson Treasury: A Selection from the Works, Unpublished Writings, Letters, Diaries, and Journals of the Most Celebrated Humanist and Art Historian of Our Times, 1887-1958”

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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

  Prayer, Fear, Believe

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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

  Dream, Childhood, Fatherhood

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

  Bernard Berenson

  Esperanza, desesperación, llanto

  Bernard Berenson, Umberto Morra Di Lavriano (1963). “Colloqui con Berenson”

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