Famous quotes containing the words art, museums and/or galleries:
“O wise and upright judge!
How much more elder art thou than thy looks!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.”
—Henry James (1843–1816)
“I have got enough of the old masters! Brown says he has “shook” them, and I think I will shake them, too. You wander through a mile of picture galleries and stare stupidly at ghastly old nightmares done in lampblack and lightning, and listen to the ecstatic encomiums of the guides, and try to get up some enthusiasm, but it won’t come.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)