Bernard Berenson
Bernard Berenson
Bernard Berensonwas an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. His book The Italian Painters of the Renaissance was an international success...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth26 June 1865
CountryUnited States of America
writing humanity literature
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
art helping justification
The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
ignorance creativity years
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
positive believe optimistic
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
beg busy hat people stand street throw wasted wish
I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
childhood dream life lived taking
From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament. . . . The dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
against defend last themselves
Governments last only as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed
contempt greeting previous shouts side toss
All we really want is otherness, tossing from side to side, and greeting every toss with shouts of welcome, and of contempt for the previous toss
art appreciate wonder
I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?
people way affair
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.
believe mind patient
Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
art men feels
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
giving stones degrees
German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.
life time hands
I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.