Deanna

“A mother at the American Wing fountain hands her child two coins: “One wish for yourself,” she says, “and another, just as big, for someone else.” I have never heard this before and immediately know I will say it to my children one day.”
― Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I think that sometimes we need permission to stop and adore, and a work of art grants us that.”
― Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me