Wax Museums

Famous quotes containing the words wax and/or museums:

“A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.”
—Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)

“In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.”
—Henry James (1843–1816)