It makes you laugh with delight that anything so fantastic could exist on this sombre earth.
Quotes
Museum collections in storage
It is true that 97% of the Powerhouse collection is kept in storage. And that our storage facilities are filled to capacity, indeed to
Hitler and art museums
Adolph Hitler threw more resources at museums, particularly art museums, than almost any other political leader in history.
Locals don’t appreciate their own art, Bali
Sometimes a messenger would arrive on foot from Saba, having trudged 20 miles with a basket containing two or three fine durian fruit, if
Art collecting in Bali
the “pirate scammers” as we affectionalty referred to them, turned out to be less the grave robbers of the nation’s treasury of ethnographic art
Bruce Carpenter
From my perspective, electricity turned most people into zombies and thus assasinated the era of magic and poetry that preceded it. Whereas we once
Ray Kroc
finding locations for McDonalds is the most creatively fulfilling thing I can imagine….out of that bare piece of ground comes a store that does,
Anthony Trollope
Nothing makes a man so cross as success, or so soon turns a pleasant friend into a captious acquaintance. Your successful man eats too
Anthonly Trollope
It is not the prize that can make us happy; it not even the winning of the prize, though for the one short half
political agenda for crafts aid
Village women work hard and keep busy at all times. Even when socializing in groups outside their homes, women spin, weave, embroider, darn socks,