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 BerensonArt 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 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 BerensonWhen everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
Bernard Berenson