Famous quotes containing the words art and/or museums:
“Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?”
—Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923)
“In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.”
—Henry James (1843–1816)