Quotes by : Bernard Berenson

I wonder whether Art has a higher function than to make me feel appreciate and enjoy natural objects....

Governments last as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

As I got warmed up and felt perfectly at home in talk I heard myself boasting lying exaggerating.....

I wish I could stand on a busy corner hat in hand and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.....

Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest and the greater....

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

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self....

A complete life may be one ending in so full identification with the non-self that there is no self to....

We define genius as the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.....