Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
Bernard BerensonThere are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.
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 BerensonI walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigour of spring, as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artefact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival...each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.
Bernard Berenson