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…

- Bernard Berenson

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

- Bernard Berenson

Art 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 Berenson

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

- Bernard Berenson

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

- Bernard Berenson

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

- Bernard Berenson

Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. Wha…

- Bernard Berenson

Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.

- Bernard Berenson

The Renaissance had resulted in the emancipation of the individual, in making him feel that the universe had no other purpose than his happiness. Thi…

- Bernard Berenson