Quotes by Bernard Berenson

Bernard Berenson

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

House

Library

Rooms

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

Mind

Technique

Art, in the widest sense of the word, is the instrument Hellenism has used and would use for that purpose. All the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visual arts, the theatre, must work singly and together to create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, the free man.

Art

Men

Together

As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.

Home

Lying

Would Be

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

Cry

Despair

Hope

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

Creativity

Ignorance

Inspirational

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament… the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.

Childhood

Dream

Fatherhood

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

Genius

Reactions

Training

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

Tea

Way

Wine

I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigour of spring, as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artefact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival…each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.

Eye

Flower

Spring

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Average

Believe

Carpe Diem

Childhood

Creative

Creativity

Cry

Despair

Doe

Dream

Enchantment

Europe

Eye

Fatherhood

Flower

Fun

Funeral

Genius

Get Together

Hands

Happiness

Helping

Home

Hope

House

Humanity

Humble

Ignorance

Inspirational

Jobs

Justification

Library

Life

Literature

Lying

Men

Mind

Movement

Our World

Parody

Patient

People

Play

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Repent

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Quotes by Bernard Berenson

Bernard Berenson

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

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.

As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.

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

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

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament… the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.

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

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

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