Artifacts Quotes

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’renot the first to die.

History is a madman's museum.

Jeanette Winterson

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 objects are unrecognizable to you. What if these objects could speak? What would they tell you about themselves? How have they been used? Where did they come from? How did they get to this museum? Whom do they belong to?

Ari Berk & Carolyn Dunn

A book is much more than a delivery vehicle for its contents.

Allison Hoover Bartlett