Bernard Berenson Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.

  Bernard Berenson

  Art, Mind, Technique

  Bernard Berenson (1962). “The Bernard Berenson Treasury: A Selection from the Works, Unpublished Writings, Letters, Diaries, and Journals of the Most Celebrated Humanist and Art Historian of Our Times, 1887-1958”

• The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.

  Bernard Berenson

  Art, Helping, Justification

  Bernard Berenson (1958). “Essays in Appreciation”

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

  Bernard Berenson

  Art, Appreciate, Wonder

  Bernard Berenson (2013). “Sketch For A Self Portrait”, p.105, Read Books Ltd

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

  Bernard Berenson

  Art, Men, Concern

  Bernard Berenson (1968). “The Italian Painters of the Renaissance”

• Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

  Bernard Berenson

  Art, Government, Momentary

  Bernard Berenson (1952). “Rumour and Reflection: 1941:1944”

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

  Bernard Berenson

  Art, Our World, Doe

• Art, in the widest sense of the word, is the instrument Hellenism has used and would use for that purpose. All the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visual arts, the theatre, must work singly and together to create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, the free man.

  Bernard Berenson

  Art, Men, Together

  "Aesthetics and History in the Visual Arts".

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