As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.
Bernard BerensonNo artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.
Bernard BerensonInternational affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.
Bernard BerensonPsychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
Bernard Berenson