I absorbed as many Impressionist paintings as I could, in Parisian museums and in many museums in the United States and in books, looking for clues to architecture, clothing, settings.
Do not fall in love with people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth. I will...
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Caitlyn Siehl
Museum education has the power and the responsibility to do the challenging inner work of tackling tough topics and turning them into teachable moments.
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Monica O Montgomery
Tough topics are only tough for those who don't want to approach conversation, who don't like problematizing the status quo and nuancing the narrative.
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Monica O Montgomery
Education is the lifeblood of museums.
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Monica O Montgomery
When asked why he wrote the book, Freed said: In the 1980s, I joined the small group of anthropologists who were writing about the history of their subject. I believed that I could add some balance to American anthropological history, and that the best place...
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Stanley A. Freed
More Quotes By Susan Vreeland
You know, bicycling isn't just a matter of balance, " I said. "it's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground. I'm going to call that the Bicyclist's Philosophy...
Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life..."It's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground.
Re: cutting glass..." You have to be in command of the glass, telling it where to release its hold on itself. Just like life. Otherwise it will splinter.
No one but another painter could know the delicacy required to balance the complexities, to keep reality at bay in order to remain in the innermost center of his work.
If you feel joy when you do something unselfish for him, and would just as soon do it in secret as openly, then that rings of the true metal
