{"quotes":[{"text":"As once-colonized nations seek to stand on their own, the countries once denuded of their past seek to assert their independent identities through the objects that tie them to it. The demand for restitution is a way to reclaim history, to assert a moral imperative over those who were once overlords. Those countries still in the shadow of more powerful empires seek to claim the symbols of antiquity and colonialism to burnish their own national mythmaking.","author":"Sharon Waxman","tags":["art","colonialism","museums","nationalism"],"id":9549,"author_id":"Sharon+Waxman"},{"text":"Our universities and museums are respected around the country.","author":"Jane Byrne","tags":["country","museums","respected "],"id":18790,"author_id":"Jane+Byrne"},{"text":"The greatest treasures are not found in museums, but in our hearts.","author":"Matshona Dhiliwayo","tags":["faith","god","heart","inspirational","inspirational","inspirational-for-men","inspirational-for-women","inspirational-for-writers","inspirational-motivation","life","life","life-and-sayings","love","love","love-and-sayings","museums","rich","soul","spiritual-insight","spiritual-insights","spiritual","spiritual","spiritual-wisdom","spirituality","treasure","wealth"],"id":24479,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhiliwayo"},{"text":"Education is the lifeblood of museums.","author":"Monica O Montgomery","tags":["cultural-awareness","education","museum-curators","museums"],"id":42684,"author_id":"Monica+O+Montgomery"},{"text":"We are not on this earth to just stand still \u0026 look pretty. The museums already have enough statues.","author":"Mandy Hale","tags":["be-the-change","change","destiny","greater-calling","helping-people","life","loving-people","making-a-difference","museums","positive-thinking","purpose","purpose-of-life","realizing-our-purpose","statues"],"id":45771,"author_id":"Mandy+Hale"},{"text":"Brant had said my embellishing constituted a disservice to history and its players. But I believed the opposite. Marooning them on the forlorn island of Only What We Know, a place whose boundaries were determined by the scant information provided by a handful of surviving documents, seemed the greater disservice. I paid homage with my imagination, and hoped I might get visitors to do the same.","author":"Leah Hager Cohen","tags":["history","museums"],"id":54045,"author_id":"Leah+Hager+Cohen"},{"text":"In bluntest terms, art museums risk being commercial institutions in which art is subsumed by economics and the experience of looking at art becomes a form of consumption.","author":"Amy Whitaker","tags":["art","museums"],"id":96418,"author_id":"Amy+Whitaker"},{"text":"Don't go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. They are ecstasy machines.","author":"Jerry Saltz","tags":["art","museums"],"id":111877,"author_id":"Jerry+Saltz"},{"text":"If I walked down by different streets to the Jardin du Luxembourg in the afternoon I could walk through the gardens and then go to the Musée du Luxembourg where the great paintings were that have now mostly been transferred to the Louvre and the Jeu de Paume. I went there nearly every day for the Cézannes and to see the Manets and the Monets and the other Impressionists that I had first come to know about in the Art Institute at Chicago. I was learning something from the painting of Cézanne that made writing simple true sentences far from enough to make the stories have the dimensions that I was trying to put in them. I was learning very much from him but I was not articulate enough to explain it to anyone. Besides it was a secret. But if the light was gone in the Luxembourg I would walk up through the gardens and stop in at the studio apartment where Gertrude Stein lived at 27 rue de Fleurus.","author":"Ernest Hemingway","tags":["cezanne","ernest-hemingway","france","museums","paris"],"id":155257,"author_id":"Ernest+Hemingway"},{"text":"He had been haunted his whole life by a mildcase of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incident he had never quite overcome.Langdon’s aversion to closed spaces was by no means debilitating, but it had always frustrated him.It manifested itself in subtle ways. He avoided enclosed sports like racquetball or squash, and he hadgladly paid a small fortune for his airy, high-ceilinged Victorian home even though economical facultyhousing was readily available. Langdon had often suspected his attraction to the art world as a youngboy sprang from his love of museums’ wide open spaces.","author":"Dan Brown","tags":["art","art-world","attraction","aversion","avoid","avoided","childhood","childhood-trauma","claustrophobia","debilitating","economical","faculty","fortune","frustrated","frustration","haunted","high-ceilings","home","house","housing","incident","life","manifest","manifested","mild","museum","museums","open-spaces","overcome","sports","subtle","subtle-ways","suspect","suspected","vestige","victorian-home","whole-life","wide-open-spaces"],"id":166062,"author_id":"Dan+Brown"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":36,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}