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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
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
European museums are all dependent on government financing. The moment European governments are under financial pressure, their budgets are cut.
— Thomas P. Campbell
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
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
They ran to the museums for paintings. I ran to the roof for sunsets
— Darnell Lamont Walker
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
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
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
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
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 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
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— 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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
