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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I think I dont regret a single excess of my responsive youth – I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didnt embrace. – Henry James

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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

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

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

Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things. – Pablo Picasso

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