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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

Other quotes by Henry James

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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Coffee (or Tea)
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Henry James
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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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Henry James
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One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. – Henry James

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Civilization
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Henry James
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Other Quotes from
Museums, Galleries
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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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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

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

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Museums, Galleries

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

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Museums, Galleries

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Fashion is more about feel than science. – Pharrell Williams

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Science

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didnt have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family. – Dave Grohl

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Happiness

If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny. – Steve Wozniak

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design

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. – Henry Clay

Category:
Gratitude