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Bernard Berenson (June 26, 1865 – October 6, 1959) was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. His book The Italian Painters of the Renaissance was an international success. His wife Mary is thought to have had a large hand in some of the writings.

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

Art, Concern, Concerns, Feels, Knows, Men

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

Doe, Fun, Parody, Turn, Universe

I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.

Corners, Drop, Hands, Life, Time, Willingly

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art. . . our world would have remained a jungle.

Art, Artifact, Doe, Help, Our World

I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?

Appreciate, Art, Enjoy, Higher, Make, Wonder

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

Comprehensive, Humanity, Literature, Sense, Writing

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

Tea, Way, Wine

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.

Believe, Fear, Miracles, Prayer, Virgin

Pessimism like calumny is easy to do, and attracts immediate attention. The gossiper and the writer may find this out soon enough, and a little encouragement from the current mood will procure them successes that bring endless imitators in their trail. On the other hand saying good things about life in general and individuals in particular and making it interesting is a serious task which few can achieve with credit.

Current, Encouragement, Hand, Hands, Mood, Soon Enough

We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: "Too bad we can't get together more often".

Funeral, Get Together, Meet, Observes, Together, Usually

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.

Affair, Crimes, People, Rulers, Way

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.

Air, Morning, Summer, Trees, Trembled

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

Describing, House, Library, Rooms

Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.

Appetite, Begins, Satisfied, Taste

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Disliked, Faults, Life, Quality, Taught

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

Art, Arts, Men, Ritual, Together

German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.

Degrees, French, Giving, Marble, Metallic, Pudding

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

Destiny, Fate, Futures, Men, Separate

I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.

Age, Desire, Excess, Recall, Youth, Youths

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

Choose, Comparison, History, Search, Truth

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