Quotes about museums
museums graffiti embrace
The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace. Barry McGee
museums imperfection hazards
The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded remains must not be looked at as a well-filled museum, but as a poor collection made at hazard and at rare intervals. Charles Darwin
museums secular-society ideas
We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it). Alain de Botton
museums world-literature pay
Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about. Edward Abbey
museums religion church
A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
museums ifs walking
If you spend your life walking through somebody else's museum, you never find out whether you're Rembrandt or not. Adam Carolla
museums work
Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place. Damien Hirst
museums african-american location
Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood. Conan O'Brien
museums play listening
The ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I'm taking now. We don't have an oral guide, we have to provide it ourselves. One reason why active listening is absolutely essential. Daniel Barenboim
museums flags confederate
Respect whatever it is [ Confederate flag] that you have to respect, because it was a point in time, and put it in a museum. Donald Trump
museums library world
London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really. David Attenborough
museums doe hollywood
There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does. Dean Martin
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The best museum is Bloomingdales. Andy Warhol
museums burning letters
This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning. Witch-burning. Chuck Palahniuk
museums bird paradise
What you see at the Field Museum is only like, 10 percent of the collection. It's birds of paradise and passenger pigeons and in all these drawers that pull out, these specimens come out and it's spectacular. And it worked out. Andrew Bird
museums church saint
Church is not a museum for Saints, but rather a hospital for sinners. Ann Landers
museums stories care
Every time I was with Sammy [Davis Jr.] it was like going to the show business museum because the stories were so extraordinary, and I didn't care if they were true or not after a while. ... I don't know if he really got high with Humphrey Bogart or not. It didn't matter because he was painting these fantastic pictures. Billy Crystal
museums absorbing
Living is like tearing through a museum. Audrey Hepburn
museums house would-be
Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite things, it is excusable under certain circumstances. Stealing is not excusable if, for instance, you are in a museum and you decide that a certain painting would look better in your house, and you simply grab the painting and take it there. But if you were very, very hungry, and you had no way of obtaining money, it would be excusable to grab the painting, take it to your house, and eat it. Daniel Handler
museums memphis stuff
Museums do not share their collections with other museums unless they get something in exchange. The Metropolitan will deal with the Louvre, but will they send their stuff to Memphis? No. Eli Broad
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We are all museums of fear. Charles Bukowski
museums lovely walking
It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself. Brad Pitt
museums conversation valuable
It is as much the conversations between objects as between us and objects that make museums so valuable. Antony Gormley
museums should
Pele should go back to the museum. Diego Maradona
museums earth divine
The earth is a museum of divine intent. Bill McKibben
museums space atlantis
New Rule: Since our new national position on science is, "Screw it, we prefer witchcraft," let's not just retire the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Let's drive it to one of the five stupidest States and have the locals beat it with sticks. Putting it in a museum is too dangerous. Someone could steal it, fly it into space and notice we revolve around the sun. Bill Maher
museums scene theater
There is a very vibrant cultural scene in Stockholm. There are lots of places where there are concerts, and there are loads of museums and theaters. Bjorn Ulvaeus
museums records curator
A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner. Glenn Gould
museums association spinning
The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe. Friedrich Engels
museums meditation painting
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. Susan Griffin
museums play magic
If there are no films or plays of interest to me, I don't go. I know how to go to a museum or a library or pick up a good magazine or I can watch the sun set. I know how to live. There's a whole creation out there full of magic and wonder to be explored. Phylicia Rashad
museums psychics drug
Psychedelic drugs, especially psilocybin, allow a searchlight to be thrown on these deeper levels of the psyche, as Jung correctly stated. But it is not a museum of archetypes or psychic constructs, as he seemed to assume. It is a frontier of wholeness into which any person, so motivated and so courageous as to wish to do it, can go and leave the mundane plane far behind. Terence McKenna
museums perception world
We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.