Robert M. Edsel

“i don't believe i've ever been more certain than I am now that the development and understanding of man's workmanship is the…

— Robert M. Edsel

“When I am billeted a German home even for one night I go out and search for the chickens and rabbits or…

— Robert M. Edsel

“The skilled observer, not the machine, was the essence of conservation.”

— Robert M. Edsel

“Since the 1300s, this job had been performed by members of a small group of families, all living in the hills near…

— Robert M. Edsel

“It is amazing how the world can change, he thought, during the life span of a fruitcake.”

— Robert M. Edsel

“There are fights that you may lose without losing your honor; what makes you lose your honor is not to fight. -Jaques…

— Robert M. Edsel

“War did not come like a hurricane, Rorimer realized, destroying everything in its path. It came like a tornado, touching down in…

— Robert M. Edsel

“If the Nazis discovered they could push you, they would push you to your death. You had to be too much trouble…

— Robert M. Edsel

We can use laws to prosecute and make people think twice before going to do something like blowing up Buddhas and other…

— Robert M. Edsel

“It matters little that you are afraid if you manage to hide it. You are then at the edge of courage. (one…

— Robert M. Edsel

“He had no idea that the world was entering an economic depression, or that hard times bring recriminations and blame. Privately, Harry's…

— Robert M. Edsel

“Christmas was just another workday, just as it had been growing up in Alabama. In a good year back then, little Robert…

— Robert M. Edsel

“Writing now makes me feel as if I had lost at least one of my senses. I can't hear you or see…

— Robert M. Edsel

Nobody wants to disappoint the boss and get fired. But if the boss hasn't said this is important, it's going to die…

— Robert M. Edsel

“he had sold his soul, and that is something you can never repurchase at any price.”

— Robert M. Edsel

To save the culture of your allies is a small thing. To cherish the culture of your enemy, to risk your life…

— Robert M. Edsel

Elderly people are like heat-seeking missiles for people who really have an interest in listening.

— Robert M. Edsel

“When the Nazis took Paris, the director of the Toledo Museum of Art wrote to David Finley, director of the not yet…

— Robert M. Edsel

“Kirstein’s realization came sometime later, although he could never say exactly where or when. There is not one type of German, went…

— Robert M. Edsel

“Colonel George A. Taylor rallied survivors with a cry, 'Two kinds of people are staying on this beach, the dead and those…

— Robert M. Edsel

“They stopped briefly at an inn near the town of Altaussee, a tidy village tucked in the woods near a pristine alpine…

— Robert M. Edsel

“To be successful in the field, a Monuments officer would need not just knowledge; he would need passion, smarts, flexibility, an understanding…

— Robert M. Edsel

“General Patton, upon seeing the Roman ruins at Agrigento, remarked to a local expert, “Seventh Army didn’t cause that destruction, did it,…

— Robert M. Edsel

“Here, Mortimer Wheeler thought, is power. And a reminder of our mortality.”

— Robert M. Edsel

“forty-seven years old, tired, but none the worse for wear. In a little more than thirteen months, he had discovered, analyzed, and…

— Robert M. Edsel