Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
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 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 BerensonWe usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: "Too bad we can't get together more often".
Bernard Berenson