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Quote by Henry James
In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives

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

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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. – Henry James

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Museums, Galleries
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That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum. – Edmond de Goncourt

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Museums, Galleries

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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Museums, Galleries

Nothing seems more like a whorehouse to me than a museum. In it you find the same equivocal aspect, the same frozen quality. – Michel Leiris

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Museums, Galleries

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

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Museums, Galleries

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To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear. – Stephen Levine

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