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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

Your museum of pain. Your sanctuary of justifiable indignation. — Wally Lamb

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

I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color. — William Eggleston

Avicenna California ... Museum of my twisted youth, vault of my dearest and most disgusting memories. — Peter S. Beagle

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

We are our memory,
we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes,
that pile of broken mirrors. — Jorge Luis Borges

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

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

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

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

Dublin City was quiet when they reached the Waxwork Museum, as if it was holding its breath. — Derek Landy

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

Many of the museum directors who make an impact personally curate exhibitions. — Jeffrey Deitch

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

They ran to the museums for paintings. I ran to the roof for sunsets — Darnell Lamont Walker

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

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

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

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

If you spend your life walking through somebody else's museum, you never find out whether you're Rembrandt or not. — Adam Carolla

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have interesting things. — Gerhard Richter

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

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

We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it. — Nicholas Lea

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

I will help build your museum
When you run out of space to hang your work
You can hang your work in mine — Darnell Lamont Walker

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

When someone witnesses something amazing, what matters most is not 'out there' . . . but deep within, at the vital emotional center of witness. — Lawrence Weschler

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

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

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 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

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

I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time. — Pierre Loti

If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum. — Mikhail Gorbachev

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 made that up. You know Marcus. He got lost once in his own museum. — Rob MacGregor

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

Pele should go back to the museum. — Diego Maradona

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

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

I've never made the separation between, say, the museum and the hardware store. I mean, I enjoy both of them, and I want to combine the two. — Andy Warhol

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

Education is the lifeblood of museums. — Monica O Montgomery

I sometimes go and sit there. it is my museum of broken things. — Sachin Kundalkar

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

Most of the other visitors were chained to their audio guides, looking only at what their little headsets told them was worth seeing. — Dara Horn

They are works of art that can be considered works of art but don't have to be in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum. — Michael Heizer

The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum. — Tania Bruguera

The museum claims Ebenezer the Allosaurus - the centrepiece of their new exhibit - 'met his end during Noah's Flood about 4,300 years ago — Anonymous

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

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 museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye. — Robert Smithson

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

In an art museum, you shall realise how banal and how ordinary the life outside! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay. — Gary Oldman

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

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

Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space. — Orhan Pamuk

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

Sometimes Peggy herself would sell tickets to her museum, and if tourists asked her if Mrs. Guggenheim was still alive, she'd assure them she wasn't. — Edmund White

My most famous show is the 'Kitchen Show.' More famous than any gallery show or museum show I curated. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

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