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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.

Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.

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: 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: [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: One can repent even of having repented.

One can repent even of having repented.

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.

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: Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

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.