Bernard Berenson Quotes

• I earn it by enjoying such authority and prestige that people will not buy expensive Italian pictures without my approval.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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• Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

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

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• Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

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• Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

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

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

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

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Bernard Berenson (14)

Birth:	26th June, 1865
Death:	6th October, 1959
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Historian

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Bernard Berenson was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. He was a major figure in pioneering art attribution and therefore establishing the market for paintings by the "Old Masters".

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