Quotessence
Home / Authors / Bernard Berenson
Bernard Berenson

Bernard Berenson Quotes

Art critic

Filter quotes by topic

AllArtMenDoeFeelsFeltIfsPeopleBelieveHandsLifeYearsAgingAppreciateArt IsBoastComprehensiveCornersDesireGovernmentHappens

Famous Bernard Berenson Quotes

“Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed? How can I regain even for a minute the feeling of ample leisure I had during my early, my creative years? Then I seldom felt fussed, or hurried. There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself.”

IfsYearsDonePlayFeelingsUsedFeltHoursBehindsCreativeMinutesFitTasksCrowdsGrantedPushingLeisureCrushed
Book:Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958
Create image

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

InspirationalYearsTodayCreativityDemocracyIgnoranceTrainingYears AgoStupidityIgnorantCynicalOriginalityConsistency
Book:The Bernard Berenson Treasury: A Selection from the Works, Unpublished Writings, Letters, Diaries, and Journals of the Most Celebrated Humanist and Art Historian of Our Times, 1887-1958
Create image

“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 vigour of spring, as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artefact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival...each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.”

YearsWellsLooksEyeLastsWalksWonderSeeingTreeFlowerSpringGardenInfiniteEdgesYesterdayVarietyColourEach DaySixtyVitalityRivalsShrubsArtefacts
Author:Bernard Berenson
Create image