"I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum……" — Lewis H. Lapham
"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."
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39 Quotes by Lewis H. Lapham
Lewis H. Lapham has 39 quotes on this site.
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Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this…
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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it…
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We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter…
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The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said…
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Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the…
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Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order for presidents to make wars,…
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The supply of government exceeds demand.
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A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or…
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The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident;…
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The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own…
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Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an…
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Among all the emotions, the rich have the least talent for love. It is possible to love one's dog, dress…
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More Art Quotes
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
— Pietro Aretino
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
— Aristophanes
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
— Darren Aronofsky
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
— Isaac Asimov
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