bernard Berenson

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

“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 vigor of spring as well as an infinite variety of color that no artifact I have ever seen in the last sixty years can rival...Each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.”

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