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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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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

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

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