There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.
Bernard BerensonI never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.
Bernard BerensonI would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
Bernard BerensonGovernment is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
Bernard BerensonArt, 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