Museums Quote by Henry James Download Open image “In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.” — Henry James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Museums Palaces Radical
The richness and variety, and indeed the advance, of our culture depend upon the continuation of this conflict [between conservatives and radicals], which is… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Radicals don't care about the institutions. They are looking for an ideological crusade. Traditions don't matter. — Norman Ornstein Copy Share Image
I've always felt, as a writer, that radicals are fascinating because they're relations, they have a place in the American family. They're the relatives… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Radicalism is as British as tea and cakes, as much a part of our make-up as monarchy and football. It will never have its… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
America is conservative in fundamental principles... but the principles conserved are liberal and some, indeed, are radical. — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read anything — Thomas Nixon Carver Copy Share Image
We are different from previous generations of conservatives... We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn… — Paul Weyrich Copy Share Image
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“In literature we move through a blest world in which we know nothing except by style, but in which everything is saved by it.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I shall stay here as long as I may, I don't want to think — I needn't think. I don't care for anything but you, and that's enough for the present. It will last a little yet. Here on my knees, with you dying in my arms, I'm happier than I've been for a long time. And I want you… — Henry James Copy Share
“...It often seemed to her that she thought too much about herself, you could have made her blush any day of the year, by telling her she was selfish. She was always planning out her own development, desiring her own perfection, observing her own progress. Her nature had for her own imagination a certain garden-like quality, a suggestion of perfume… — Henry James Copy Share
“I reflected acutely that the sense of such differences, such superiorities of quality, always, on the part of the majority—which could include even stupid,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She had had a real fright but had fallen back to earth. The odd thing was that in her fall her fear too had been dashed down and broken. It was gone.” — Henry James Copy Share
“She had never met a woman who had less of that fault which is the principal obstacle to friendship - the air of reproducing… — Henry James Copy Share Image
If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it. — Henry James Copy Share Image
It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games — Henry James Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them. — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
I shot for French and British Vogue. The British Vogue one featured clothes by Chloe and was shot at Highgate and the John Soane… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power of consecrating things and endowing them with a sort of eternity; museums are our temples, and the objects displayed in them are beyond history. Politics--or more precisely, Revolution--co-opted the other function of religion: changing human beings… — Octavio Paz Copy Share
The Louvre! The Louvre has me in its clutches. Every time I'm there rich blessings rain down upon me. I am coming to understand Titian more and more and learning to love him. And then there is Botticelli's sweet Madonna, with red roses behind her, standing against a blue-green sky. And Fiesole with his poignant little biblical stories, so simply… — Paula Modersohn-Becker Copy Share
Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative… — Robert Hewison Copy Share Image
We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental… — Christo Copy Share Image
I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time. — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
Most of my life, I thought that I would end up a novelist. But then, in New York City, after college, I started a… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation in art. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
I think movies are now like going to a museum and seeing the latest exhibit - people just aren't going. It really is a… — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
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