"I am only a picture-taster, the way others……" — Bernard Berenson

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

— Bernard Berenson

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32 Quotes by Bernard Berenson

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I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their…
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired…
Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or…
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness…
A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self…
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to…

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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento

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