Bernard Berenson Quotes

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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity. - Bernard Berenson quote.
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
— Bernard Berenson The Bernard Berenson Treasury

literature

Against human nature one cannot legislate. One can only try to educate it, and that is a slow process with only a distant hope of success. - Bernard Berenson quote.
Against human nature one cannot legislate. One can only try to educate it, and that is a slow process with only a distant hope of success.
— Bernard Berenson

education

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

time

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. - Bernard Berenson quote.
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.
— Bernard Berenson

art