Ray Bradbury, who died the other day, was good friends with Federico Fellini and the Renaissance art scholar, Bernard Berenson. I would love to be a fly on the wall in a room with those three.
Berenson, the lesser known, left us with a bounty of quotations.
“I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value. So, as 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 seen in the last 60 years can rival. Each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.”
and my favorite
“Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.”