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

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

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

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

We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers. — Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

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

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

Pele should go back to the museum. — Diego Maradona

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

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

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

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

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'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

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

Nobody ever flunked a science museum — Frank Oppenheimer

To visit a museum is fine,
to be a museum piece is terrible!

- Gioconda and Si-Ya-U — Nazim Hikmet

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

Museums, I love museums. — Tony Randall

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

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

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

Education is the lifeblood of museums. — Monica O Montgomery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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