Bataille

"The museum is the colossal mirror in which man, finally contemplating himself from all sides, and finding himself literally an object of wonder, abandons himself to the ecstasy expressed in art journalism." George Bataille em Museum, embora pense que já o citei anteriormente. com data de 1930, entre guerras. colossal piling-up of wealth: "Not only does the ensemble of the world's museums now represent a colossal piling-up of wealth, but the totality of museum visitors throughout the world surely offers the very grandiose spectacle of a humanity by now liberated from material concerns and devoted to contemplation."