Metropolitan Stories Quotes

“Survival is a funny business, too. A losing game. Literally. They love us, and we lose them all. The ones who made us, the ones who gave us, the ones who sat down and played with us, the ones who held us, or just laid eyes on us. The ones who bought, traded, and sold us. Cleaned us, redeemed us, brought back the sheen on us. Loved us. Learned everything there is to know about us.”
― Christine Coulson, Metropolitan Stories

“We protect them and save them and study them. After a time, we realize—some of us slower than others—that they are protecting us, saving us, studying us.”
― Christine Coulson, Metropolitan Stories

“Some curators are great scholars, others great exhibition makers, still others, superb collectors. It is rare to have a curator like Peter, who excels at all three.”
― Christine Coulson, Metropolitan Stories

“Melvin thought about the museum inhaling so much of the world—all that history, all that spiritual juice, all the passions and laments of each visitor—without ever really exhaling.”
― Christine Coulson, Metropolitan Stories

“Our lives are devoted to our absence—to the idea that no trace of ourselves should be left in our work.”
― Christine Coulson, Metropolitan Stories

“He had learned long ago not to comfort the rich. They paid others for that.”
― Christine Coulson, Metropolitan Stories