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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

There's no future in stories ... Stories are things of the past, things for museums. — David Mitchell

I'm all in favor of supporting fancy museums and elite schools, but face it: These aren't really charities as most people understand the term. — Robert Reich

American museums have become cautious, because it is very hard to get money to do something different or controversial. — Pontus Hulten

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

It was a practical trip, straight across the country. No pit stops at canned meat museums, no national parks. Just a whole lot of Wynebraskowa. — Kari Martindale

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

I liked the streets as much as museums, and I spent hours in the city wandering around, inhaling the garbage. — Siri Hustvedt

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

Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, movies, museums, schools, etc. — Jack Zipes

European museums are all dependent on government financing. The moment European governments are under financial pressure, their budgets are cut. — Thomas P. Campbell

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

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

People buy such bollocks at museums. They don't know what else to do once they're there. — David Mitchell

Museums are the anthropological screened porches of suburbia. You can be near something great, but not actually personally experience it. — S. Kelley Harrell

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

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

Stop looking at the walls, look out the window. — Karl Pilkington

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

Growing up, I lived in a house without art: no picture books on the shelves, no visits to museums, no posters on the bedroom wall. — John Burnside

All too often, schools resemble museums, reflecting the past rather than shaping the future — Max Tegmark

Yes, my works ... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years. — Sigmar Polke

She walked about disdainfully, unwilling to be enthusiastic over monuments of uncertain authorship or date. — E. M. Forster

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. — George Santayana

To preserve the past is to save the future... — Nanette L. Avery

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

Forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums — Zbigniew Herbert

We are all walking museums, housing our small portion of the epic human story. — James Hawthorne

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

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

Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag. — Peter Zumthor

I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way. — Thelma Golden

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

And "Immortality"
mildews ...
in the museums of the moon — Mina Loy

I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography. — Bill Wyman

One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like. — Muhammad Yunus

As cultural politics change, museums change with them. — Sharon Waxman

The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back. — Jerry Saltz

After four movies, three concerts, and two-and-a-half museums, you sleep with him. It seems the right number of cultural events. — Lorrie Moore

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

Museums should be places where you raise questions, not just show stuff. — William Thorsell

My dad's great. He's an amazing artist. A sculptor. He's wonderful and supportive. I love going to museums with him - we talk about ... everything. — Grace Gummer

I believe profoundly in the importance of museums; I would go as far as to say that you can judge a society by the quality of its museums. — Richard Fortey

Museums, I love museums. — Tony Randall

Museums don't like things to be thrown away, in case they turn out to be very important later on. — Terry Pratchett

To surround yourself with beauty isn't frivolous. It's a necessity. If it weren't, then our cities would not be surrounded with art museums and parks. — Charlotte Symonds

whose work also hangs in numerous museums. — Nicholas Sparks

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

I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good. — Elliott Erwitt

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

When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums. — Andy Warhol

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

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

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

I love all the arts - so museums, theatre, music, walks near trees or by the ocean, time with people, psychological readings. — Aimee Bender

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

When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller. — Robert McKee

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

Words are fossilized butterfly wings,
pretty to look at sometimes,
but only good for Museums.
I want to miserably burn down the Museums. — Jeremiah Walton

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

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

Microserfs (1995) p28 'He's thinking of quitting [Microsoft] to be a pixelation broker, going around to museums to digitize their paintings — Douglas Coupland

I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums. — Zaha Hadid

New York. It's home to opera, Broadway, museums, the ballet and orchestra - everything that I love. The most real people in the world live there. — Kristin Chenoweth

Who will tend the farm museums who will dust the day belongings? — Michael Stipe

History is a madman's museum. — Jeanette Winterson

Nobody ever flunked a science museum — Frank Oppenheimer

Inside the museums, | Infinity goes up on trial | Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while — Bob Dylan

I'm not sure what [my latest works are] about but I'm convinced they're the best things I've done and I'm going to the world's best museums with them. — Mark Kostabi

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

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place with curators in museums; others we take for walks. — Roger A. Caras

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

I love to play. I love, opera, hiking and museums. The one thing I don't do is sit. I have a tremendous amount of energy. — Alan Dershowitz

We live in a world where art exists in galleries and museums, and musicians have to play the same venues over and over. — Doug Aitken

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

We are not on this earth to just stand still & look pretty. The museums already have enough statues. — Mandy Hale

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

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

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

I'm a closet nerd. I love to study history and visit museums. — Shakira

The only place where poverty should be is in museums. — Muhammad Yunus

Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind. — George Lois

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

Education is the lifeblood of museums. — Monica O Montgomery

Get out there and see your state. Go to museums and parks and historic sites. Get yourselves some culture so that when you do leave you can take it. — Jennifer Niven

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

Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture. — Vartan Gregorian

Tourists as well as natives want to see cultural achievements - whether it's the Banaue Terraces, the old churches or museums. — F. Sionil Jose

Our universities and museums are respected around the country. — Jane Byrne

The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force. — Vladimir Putin

I love museums but I don't want to live in one. — Tim Cook

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

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

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. — Arnold Palmer

Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups. — Bill Dedman