I 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 BerensonThere are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.
Bernard BerensonYou can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
Bernard BerensonThe ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
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