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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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The only success worth ones powder was success in the line of ones idiosyncrasy… what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be? – Henry James

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If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land. – 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

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

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