Bernard Berenson
Bernard Berenson
Bernard Berensonwas an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. His book The Italian Painters of the Renaissance was an international success...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth26 June 1865
CountryUnited States of America
ignorance creativity years
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
positive believe optimistic
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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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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I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passers-by to drop their unused minutes into it.
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Governments last only as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed
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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