In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

A Radical is a man with both feet firmly planted--in the air. A Conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A Reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest--at the command--of his head.

All museums hold events now.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!

An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.