"A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world."

-- Edmond de Goncourt

#Art Quotes #Museums Quotes #World Quotes

“Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.”
“Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.”
“It is a very great mistake to suppose, as a few English cooks still do, that spaghetti and macaroni should be soaked in water before cooking.”
“Sometimes, when we are sad, we have to do the opposite of sad. Sometimes we have to sing.”
“...the world is a giant community now. This excuse of distance, time, doesn't work...We're all so connected. We can't spend every second of our lives worrying about another family miles away but we somehow have to factor it in where we can.”
“Can't you make them stop?' I asked her that day, wondering if there was anything in this woman I could speak to, if she had ever run joyfully over grass, or had watched flowers, or known delight or love.”
“You can only hope to get a combination of happy work and a happy life.”
“Sometimes I have wondered whether life wouldn't be much more amusing if we were all devils, and no nonsense about angels and being good.”

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