55 Quotes by Bernard Berenson

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

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

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

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

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

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

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

I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passers-by to drop their unused minutes into it.

I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.