Quotes about museum
museums morgues louvre
The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends. Jean Cocteau
museums years people
Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other people got work because of Bilbao. Frank Gehry
museums houston feels
I always feel like there are specific things about Houston. There's one museum in particular in Houston. So many of the things that I'm interested in now I can sort of trace back to that museum, which introduced me to them. Jarvis Cocker
museums glasses ideas
Where do you get your ideas? people ask. Sometimes they’re at the bottoms of cups of tea. Sometimes they’re lurking in my shower. Sometimes they’re waiting patiently in glass cases in museums. Erin Morgenstern
museums color important
In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually isn’t highly developed in poets. Whether you take a walk in the woods with a painter, or go to a museum with one, through them you notice shapes, colors, harmonies, relationships that enhance your own seeing. Carolyn Kizer
museums odds knack
Kitschis one of the major categories of the modern object. Knick-knacks, rustic odds-and-ends, souvenirs, lampshades, and African masks: the kitsch-object is collectively this whole plethora of "trashy," sham or faked objects, this whole museum of junk which proliferates everywhere.... Kitsch is the equivalent to the "cliché" in discourse. Jean Baudrillard
museums world enigma
One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness. Giorgio de Chirico
museums walks walking
When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking. Gertrude Stein
museums water house
Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge. Jo Nesbo
museums people
These are the people who are going to see the pictures in my museum. Norton Simon
museums palaces radical
In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives. Henry James
museums history giving
A Museum of fetishes would give special attention to the history of underwear. Mason Cooley
museums style parody
The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.
museums quotation-marks mark
In the museums, everything is in quotation marks.
museums canvas bedroom
There was something unmistakably exultant about the mess that Rosa had made. Her bedroom-studio was at once the canvas, journal, museum, and midden of her life. She did not “decorate” it; she infused it. Michael Chabon
museums long lasts
If I went to somewhere busy, I wouldn't last very long. I can't go to a museum - I'll last 10 or 15 minutes in a museum. The problem is that when one person asks for a photograph, then someone sees a flash goes off, then everyone else sort of... it's sort of like a domino effect. Emma Watson
museums people firsts
Americans are funny people: first you shock them, then they put you in a museum. Mick Jagger
museums world becoming
The world's becoming a museum of socialist failures. John Dos Passos
museums funeral feelings
I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. John Burroughs
museums mind custodians
Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind. George Lois
museums berlin eastern
I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good. Elliott Erwitt
museums air trying
We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to help us. Of course, the main thing about a building like this is its upkeep. It needs central heating and it needs central air conditioning. Katherine Dunham
museums should-have people
Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town.
museums opponents election
I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display. Lyndon B. Johnson
museums our-lives
A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can. Maira Kalman
museums wonderful photograph
There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals. Julie Harris
museums sometimes empty
Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for no one but myself. Haruki Murakami
museums self intellectual
The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self- education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal. Gilbert K. Chesterton
museums wonder cathedrals
This is *our* Universe, our museum of wonder and beauty, our cathedral. John Archibald Wheeler
museum native opportunity seen
This was seen as an opportunity to have a museum that is very much from the native perspective.
museums theatre needs
We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they should be preserved. Jim Dale
museum people perceive
Sometimes people perceive a museum as intimidating. This is very relaxed.
museums people blame
If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum. Mikhail Gorbachev