Quote by Jonathan Miller
Attitudes to museums have changed. If it had Marilyn Monroes knick

Attitudes to museums have changed. If it had Marilyn Monroes knickers or Laurence Oliviers jockstrap they would flock to it. – Jonathan Miller

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In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives. – Henry James

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth. – Lewis H. Lapham

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country. – Robert Hewison

The Louver is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends. – Jean Cocteau

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