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.

Bernard Berenson

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Miracles happen to those who believe in them. by Bernard Berenson

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

Bernard Berenson

optimistic positive believe

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

Bernard Berenson

fate destiny men

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography o... by Bernard Berenson

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

Bernard Berenson

literature humanity writing

It was a morning in early summer. A silver haze shimmered and trembled over the lime trees. The air was laden with their fragrance. The temperature was like a caress. I remember - I need not recall - that I climbed up a tree stump and felt suddenly immersed in Itness. I did not call it by that name. I had no need for words. It and I were one.

Bernard Berenson

air summer morning

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

aging self may

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

Bernard Berenson

carpe-diem time hands

International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.

Bernard Berenson

affair people way

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her.

Bernard Berenson

prayer fear believe

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

Bernard Berenson

childhood fatherhood dream

The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.

Bernard Berenson

justification helping art

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.

Bernard Berenson

technique mind art

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry... by Bernard Berenson

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

Bernard Berenson

cry despair hope

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a ye... by Bernard Berenson

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

Bernard Berenson

creativity ignorance inspirational

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

Bernard Berenson

parody doe fun

It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.

Bernard Berenson

humble happiness jobs

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

Bernard Berenson

appreciate appreciation beauty

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's trai... by Bernard Berenson

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

Bernard Berenson

reactions training genius

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

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

Bernard Berenson

wine tea way

Taste begins when appetite is satisfied. by Bernard Berenson

Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.

Bernard Berenson

appetite satisfied taste

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second. by Bernard Berenson

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

Bernard Berenson

comparison truth history