Bernard Berenson

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

Bernard Berenson

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

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

Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.

Bernard Berenson

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

Bernard Berenson

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

Bernard Berenson

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

Bernard Berenson

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

Bernard Berenson

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

Bernard Berenson

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

Bernard Berenson