Curator

🇬🇧Roger Fry

Art

Bloomsbury Group

1866–1934

"Only those who have experienced the elation and despair which comes from the attempt to express their feelings about vision in oil paint will know that it is impossible to speak with complete impartiality about art."

🇯🇵Okakura Kakuzō

Literature

1863–1913

"It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life."

🇺🇸Franz Boas

Education

1858–1942

"The behavior of an individual is determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural environment."

"Doctors and “consumers” are becoming locked within a fantasy that everyone has something wrong with them, everyone and everything can be cured."

🇦🇹Johannes Grenzfurthner

Entertainment

b. 1975

"Strange to see radical anti-Semites using Facebook. I'd like to call that Zuckerberg's Paradox."

🇺🇸Gail Levin

Art

b. 1948

"By definition, a catalogue raissonne employs methodical scholarship to gather and digest in systematic form all that can be known of an artist's work and life. In short the evidence of his intellectual and cultural life."

🇬🇧Roy Strong

Entertainment

b. 1935

"I am an unashamed elitist but i do believe in access for everybody."

"The role of art is to give food for thought,to act as a stimulant,to entice the onlooker to inspect things, people,emotions,from a new point of view."

"History of Pierre and Marie at Nobelprize.Org"

🇺🇸Willoughby Sharp

Art

1936–2008

"When I met Terry Fox in Berkeley in 1970, we became fast friends. I felt his sensibility had a lot in common with Beuys, whom I’d known for some time, and I helped get them together."

🇺🇸William Beebe

Science

1877–1962

"The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living."

Richard Owen

Science

1804–1892

"No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin."

🇺🇸John Cotton Dana

Science

1856–1929

"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn."

"Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or "dematerialized."

🇬🇧William Buckland

Science

1784–1856

"I have eaten many strange things, but have never eaten the heart of a king."

"Haiku...meditations...starting points for trains of thought"

🇺🇸George Gaylord Simpson

Science

1902–1984

"Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind."

🇫🇷Jean-Henri Fabre

Science

Félibrige

1823–1915

"Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity."

🇬🇧Kenneth Clark

Art

1903–1983

"Heroes do not easily tolerate the company of other heroes."

🇫🇷Frank Popper

Education

1918–2020

"Roy Ascott... aimed to achieve a wider 'cybernetic' awareness through acting on the psychology of the spectator, who was invited to regroup the elements of the technological universe and exploit certain of its meanings."

🇺🇸Edward Steichen

Art

pictorialism

1879–1973

"Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. a major force in explaining man to man."

🇺🇸Frank O'Hara

Literature

Surrealism

1926–1966

"I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love."

"This museum is a torpedo moving through time, its head the ever-advancing present, its tail the ever-receding past of 50 to 100 years ago."

🇳🇱Hendrik Lorentz

Science

1853–1928

"Let there be in every material particle several material points charged with electricity, of which, however, only one be movable, and have the charge e and the mass μ."

"The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die."

🇬🇧Sarah Bakewell

Literature

b. 1963

"The peasantry … were the true philosophers of the modern world, the heirs to classical sages such as Seneca and Socrates. Only they knew how to live, precisely because they knew nothing much about anything else."