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A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch. — D.H. Lawrence

A theater without beer is just a museum — Bertolt Brecht

My novel is about the history of the world, told from the point of view of a column of stone.
(from "Wherein We Enter the Museum") — Kit Reed

Babe, I live in a fuckin' museum. Please, God, inject some personality in it. — Kristen Ashley

The world's becoming a museum of socialist failures. — John Dos Passos

I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Checkpoint Charlie. — David Hasselhoff

Having plenty of time and all the museum's funds at my disposal, I put myself on a regime to buy one picture a day. — Peggy Guggenheim

In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man — Mark Twain

The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves. — Diane Ackerman

Shouldn't a great museum foster serious seeing before all else? — Mark Stevens

The mind is like a well-endowed museum, only a small fraction of its holdings on view at any one time. — James Richardson

What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past. — John Hodgman

I have played in every toilet but you still want to spoil it to prove I've made a big mistake — Muse

An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances. — Gary Saul Morson

The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace. — Barry McGee

Any city in America would like to get a museum built if they didn't have to pay for it. — Eli Broad

It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself. — Brad Pitt

I take the museum space also as sacred in a sense. — Tadao Ando

We live in what virtually amounts to a museum - which does not happen to a lot of people. — Prince Philip

I think that objects have memories. I'm always thinking that I'll go to the museum and see something and have a big memory about some other lifetime. — Kiki Smith

i am a museum full of art but you had your eyes shut — Rupi Kaur

The Whitney is a museum that has a great rapport with younger artists and the community. — Jeff Koons

A fat old man has disturbed my day, coming to tell me that he has sold my childhood to a museum in Cincinnati. — A.M. Homes

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum. — Edmond De Goncourt

If every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless. — Nancy Lancaster

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

An art book is a museum without walls. — Andre Malraux

Stay in these rooms for years and years, live on forever in a glorious museum. — Lydia Millet

Perhaps a special wing at the Museum of Crazy should be erected in my honor. — John Green

I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and see nothing but prints of dogs playing cards. — Elayne Boosler

They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum. — Joni Mitchell

You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it. — Steve Martin

If you don't work yourself up into a fever of greed and covetousness in an art museum, you're just not doing the job. — Thomas Hoving

The Beje is now a museum (above an actual watch shop), and visitors can see the secret room where the ten Booms once hid Jews. — Kathryn J. Atwood

Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That's as close as you can get to immortality ... — Damien Hirst

The Church is not a museum to display perfect people, but a hospital for the hurting. — John Osteen

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum. — Erich Maria Remarque

Is something art just because a museum hangs it on their wall? Are you networking just because you're standing in a crowded room? — Jarod Kintz

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution — Albert C. Barnes

To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime. — M. E. W. Sherwood

Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum. — Ansel Adams

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao looks like a great adventure. — Eduardo Chillida

You live in the greatest museum imaginable. Isn't it time you left the lobby and took a look at some of the incredible exhibits? — Ron Lizzi

It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall. — Jack Levine

I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man -myself - lives in a museum. — Philip Guston

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. — John Burroughs

Mammy was now the curator of their lives' museum and she, Laila, a mere visitor. — Khaled Hosseini

I think with my hands. I design things to be touched-not for a museum. A piece is ready when it has the shape of something to cherish. — Eva Zeisel

A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works. — David Rockefeller

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

We are very slow to recognise in the peculiar physiognomy of a new writer the model which is labelled "great talent" in our museum of general ideas. — Marcel Proust

I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest. — Robert T. Bakker

Nothing seems more like a whorehouse to me than a museum. In it you find the same equivocal aspect, the same frozen quality. — Michel Leiris

But if I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I'd choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art. — Tim Gunn

It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum. — Banksy

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

The earth is a museum of divine intent. — Bill McKibben

The trouble with you, Vic," he said, "is that you think of the world as a sort of huge museum with too many visitors allowed in. — John Banville

Source of inspiration. The MAK is a museum that has had a profound effect on me as an artist and art viewer. — Kiki Smith

How does one measure the success of a museum? — J. Paul Getty

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

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

At a certain point, I stopped seeing my clothing worn by people on the streets ... It seemed like they were being treated as museum items. — Yohji Yamamoto

You don't go missing in a museum- you just get temporarily absorbed by the walls. — Neal Shusterman

I told him that I apologised, that I understood, but really: I am not a museum, not yet, I'm a love letter, a love letter. — Elizabeth McCracken

Prose is a museum, where all the old weapons of poetry are kept — T. E. Hulme

If I waved that in front of a museum curator, he'd promptly lose control of his salivary glands. — Kevin Hearne

History is a madman's museum. — Jeanette Winterson

My father has made a museum with my cuttings and photographs. — Andres Iniesta

Nobody ever flunked a science museum — Frank Oppenheimer

Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void. — Robert Smithson

Church is not a museum for Saints, but rather a hospital for sinners. — Ann Landers

Growing up in Versailles is like growing up in a museum, and the people living there are almost the security. — Thomas Mars

If you are not open to the change, you will be no different than a statue in the museum! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I love the arts, and enjoy going to the art museum whenever I get a chance. — Matthew Carter

In the king's bed is always found, just before it becomes a museum piece, the droppings of the black sheep. — Nathanael West

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. — Edmond De Goncourt

D. J. Tanner called and she wants her wardrobe back so it can be included in a museum retrospective about the prime years of Full House. — Lena Dunham

The Best of the artist's art, which will one day be in a Museum wall, the Painting that sets the artist apart of all other artist artists. — Kelly Miller

The gods are made of marble
Deep inside a museum
A quadruped monster beckons me to approach
("Outcries") — Helene Baronne D'Oettingen

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

Late 20th century music was a really important thing. It changed the world, and I'm part of that, and now I'm part of the museum that celebrates that. — Daryl Hall

Delivering the speech was a surreal experience. The delegates sat silent, almost frozen in place. It was like speaking to a wax museum. — George W. Bush

The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners. — Timothy Keller

I need my skull in one piece. Crushing it would be like taking a wrecking ball to some secret museum before anyone ever got to see what's inside. — Jandy Nelson

Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things. — Iggy Azalea

My computer background is a black and white picture I took of the Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum in Brazil. — Emma Ishta

The Western memory museum is now mostly a visual one. — Susan Sontag

I know about skeletons. Once I went to a museum and saw dinosaur skeletons. They are like jigsaw puzzles for scientists. — Claire King

A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects. — Orhan Pamuk

Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be. — Muhammad Yunus

Museum's Grand Gallery. He lunged for the nearest painting he could see, a Caravaggio. Grabbing — Dan Brown

The whole room was like a museum of how people lived in olden times. — Patrick Ness

your body is a museum of natural disasters can you grasp how stunning that is — Rupi Kaur

I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something more than sit on its ass in a museum. — Claes Oldenburg

Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum. — Mark Twain

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

Tomorrow. There's a Gone With the Wind museum here in the house. — Carolyn Brown

I'd like to go back to Paris someday and visit the Lourve museum, get a good running start, and hurl myself at the wall. — Warren Zevon

I long ago ran out of bookshelf space and so, like a museum with its art, simply rotate my books from the boxes to the shelves and back again. — Michael Dirda