6 quotes found
“Imagine standing in a room in a large museum. As you look around the dimly lit gallery, you begin to recognize shapes: a basket, an arrow, a beautifully decorated carving, a shield. Some of the obj...”
“History is a madman's museum.”
“A book is much more than a delivery vehicle for its contents.”
“Scattered among these things are reminders that sound once existed: a metronome, a drumming pad, a guitar pick, a trumpet mouthpiece, a music stand, a tuning fork, a block of rosin...The older inst...”
“The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us werenot the first to die.”
“The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’renot the first to die.”
