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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science. — Bernard Berenson

You couldn't train a falcon , then expect it not to hunt. — Leigh Bardugo

I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it. — Bernard Berenson

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity. — Bernard Berenson

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second. — Bernard Berenson

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

I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters. — Bernard Berenson

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase. — Bernard Berenson

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

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

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

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

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

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. — Bernard Berenson

When the law is separated from Christ, nothing is left but empty forms. This — John Calvin

I have to wear a new T-shirt every night. I throw them into the audience. One day I'm going to go around the world and reclaim all my T-shirts — Damon Albarn

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope. — Bernard Berenson

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training. — Bernard Berenson

The only way to stay sane is to stop hoping for something better. — Jonathan Tropper

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

Taste begins when appetite is satisfied. — Bernard Berenson

Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable. — Bernard Berenson

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

Break a pact. Accept forgiveness. Make a bet. — Paulo Coelho

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached. — Bernard Berenson

One can repent even of having repented. — Bernard Berenson

A complete life may be one ending in so full identification with the non-self that there is no self to die. — Bernard Berenson

Once you have experienced what it's like to have a truly ordered house, you'll feel your whole world brighten. — Marie Kondo

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

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. — Bernard Berenson

We were a town full of fear, searching for answers. But we were also a town full of liars. — Megan Miranda

Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed. — Bernard Berenson