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Bernard Berenson Quotes

1865–1959 Lithuania

Bernard Berenson (June 26, 1865 – October 6, 1959) was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance.

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

Notebook (1892)

Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.

Can any mortal portray himself with words, as perhaps he can with chalk or paint? ... A gifted verbal artist may convey some coherent idea of a person he attempts to portray, but not likely an objective one.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bernard Berenson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.