Bernard Berenson Quotes about Art

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

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”

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”

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".

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

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 “The Bernard Berenson Treasury: A Selection from the Works, Unpublished Writings, Letters, Diaries, and Journals of the Most Celebrated Humanist and Art Historian of Our Times, 1887-1958”