Bernard Berenson

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it…

— Bernard Berenson

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

— Bernard Berenson

In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of…

— 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…

— Bernard Berenson

It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be…

— Bernard Berenson

Art, in the widest sense of the word, is the instrument Hellenism has used and would use for that purpose. All the…

— Bernard Berenson

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who…

— Bernard Berenson

All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of…

— 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

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

— Bernard Berenson

International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people…

— Bernard Berenson

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

— Bernard Berenson

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

— Bernard Berenson

German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze…

— Bernard Berenson

It was a morning in early summer. A silver haze shimmered and trembled over the lime trees. The air was laden with…

— Bernard Berenson

One can repent even of having repented.

— Bernard Berenson

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

— 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

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

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to…

— Bernard Berenson

Governments last only as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed

— Bernard Berenson