Lewis H. Lapham Quotes

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

Lewis H. Lapham

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• Wealth
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• Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Wealth