Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
"Bernard Berenson" was an United States/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".
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous historians! More Bernard Berenson on Wikipedia.The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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.
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.
I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
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