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

Other quotes by Henry James

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals. – Henry James

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Women
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. – Henry James

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Art
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The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. – Henry James

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Imagination
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Other Quotes from
Museums, Galleries
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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

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

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

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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The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. – John Updike

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Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas A. Edison

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Failure

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it. – Will Rogers

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A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it. – Henry Edward Manning

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