"Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself."

-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#Museums Quotes #Paris Quotes

“Playboy strategically selected the Forum Shops at Caesars in Las Vegas to debut our first U.S. store because it is one of the most successful retail shopping destinations in the world. It is clear that Playboy and Las Vegas are a powerful match, presenting the chance for consumers and visitors to experience all of the glamour, sexiness, style and fun associated with both.”
“We tremble at the feelings we experience as our sense of wholeness is reorganized by what we see.”

Source : Emmet Gowin, Princeton University. Art Museum (1998). “Emmet Gowin: aerial photographs”
“Mysteriously, as elusive as it is, this moment--where the eye is what it sees, where the heart is what it feels--this moment shows us that what is real is sacred”
“As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike.”

Source : Alex Faickney Osborn (1953). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking”, New York
“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
“Your belief that you can do the thing gives your thought forces their power.”
“The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferrd and committed to them in trust from the People, to the Common good of them all, in whom the power yet remaines fundamentally, and cannot be takn from them, without a violation of thir natural birthright.”
“Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance.”

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