Bernard Berenson Quotes

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

"Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope."
-Bernard Berenson in Boasts quotes.

"All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man."
-Bernard Berenson in Art quotes.

"All we really want is otherness, tossing from side to side, and greeting every toss with shouts of welcome, and of contempt for the previous toss."
-Bernard Berenson

"I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours."
-Bernard Berenson

"Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science."
-Bernard Berenson

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