Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julie Harris

There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals.

Maria Semple

Unfortunately Seattle is my muse, for the better or worse of Seattle - I'm not sure.

Tony Randall

Museums, I love museums.

Susan Griffin

At the museum a troubled woman destroys a sand painting meticulously created over days by Tibetan monks. The monks are not disturbed. The work is a meditation. They simply begin again.

Rudolf Bing

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.

Susan Sontag

Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.

Tim Cook

I love museums. But I don't want to live in one.

Zaha Hadid

There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.

Zaha Hadid

I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.

Yogi Berra

I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.

Troy Polamalu

There's so much that I like about Pittsburgh, actually. The cultural district and museums are wonderful, and I encourage everyone to check them out. And the food is excellent, too!

Ruzwana Bashir

Despite living in an increasingly digital world, there are a few things I still like to keep as physical reminders. So every time I see an exhibition, I make a pit stop at the museum gift shop to buy a postcard of something that inspired me.

Robert Smithson

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy

Robert Smithson

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.

Roger Caras

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

Vivienne Westwood

I do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this.

Virginia Woolf

I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh.

Werner Herzog

If you go to Florence, it has all surface beauty, but like Venice, it's simply a museum of Renaissance times. Los Angeles is raw, uncouth and bizarre, but it's a place of substance. It has more new horizons than any other place.

Wayne White

Puppets are pure form then ideas for performance come out of that. It's always the form and the visuals and that's why I like to make puppets in a gallery or museum. They're not often in those contexts.

Salvador Dali

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.

Tony Stewart

DEI without Dale Earnhardt Jr. is a museum.

Robert Barry

The first place I try to go when I have free time is the museums. I'm a big museum person.

Renzo Piano

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.

Roger Ebert

The Muse visits during the process of creation, not before.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.