Top 12 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.

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes enemies of people if not the eagerness the passion for the same thing?

 

We define genius as the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.

 

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

 

I wish I could stand on a busy corner hat in hand and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

 

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die.

 

Governments last as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

 

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

 

 

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