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Inspirational Quotations

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Inspirational Quotes by Bernard Berenson (Russian-born American Art Historian)

Inspirational Quotations by Bernard Berenson (Russian-born American Art Historian)

Bernard Berenson (1865–1959) 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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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
—Bernard Berenson
Topics: Change, Consistency, Action

I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
—Bernard Berenson
Topics: Carpe-diem, Excess, Waste, Time, Time Management, Trust, Value of Time

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
—Bernard Berenson
Topics: Life and Living

Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
—Bernard Berenson
Topics: Taxation, Taxes

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
—Bernard Berenson
Topics: Truth

We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: “Too bad we can’t get together more often”.
—Bernard Berenson

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
Topics: Miracles, Belief

I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value. So, as I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge or a vigor of spring as well as an infinite variety of color that no artifact I have seen in the last 60 years can rival.
—Bernard Berenson
Topics: Art

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