Bernard Berenson

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature. ”

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die. ”

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

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy. ”

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase. ”

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training. ”