Famous Quotes & Sayings

Giorgio de Chirico

One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness.

Mick Jagger

Americans are funny people: first you shock them, then they put you in a museum.

Mason Cooley

A Museum of fetishes would give special attention to the history of underwear.

Mason Cooley

The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.

Mason Cooley

In the museums, everything is in quotation marks.

Michael Chabon

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.

Friedrich Engels

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.

John Archibald Wheeler

This is *our* Universe, our museum of wonder and beauty, our cathedral.

Tim Cook

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

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.

Renzo Piano

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

Robert Barry

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

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.

Yogi Berra

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

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.

Vivienne Westwood

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

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.

Theophilus London

I might want to open a hotel and design all the rooms. Or maybe a museum that lets me curate all the events.

Terence McKenna

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

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.

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.

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.

Tony Randall

Museums, I love museums.

Simon Hoggart

Some government expenditure actually makes a profit. Our theatre leads the world. Loads of tourists must be attracted by the fact that you could spend a week in London doing nothing but visit superb museums and galleries, free.

Rick Riordan

I’d been to the British museum before. In fact I’ve been in more museums than I like to admit—it makes me sound like a total geek. [That’s Sadie in the background, yelling I am a total geek. Thanks, Sis.]

Steven Wright

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

Richard Simmons

I have a one of a kind collection of dolls. My house is like a museum.

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.