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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

The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church. — Kate Williams

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

The body is a museum for memories. I am the Smithsonian. — Wheston Chancellor Grove

But now it's the museum backdrop for the exhibition of grief. — David Levithan

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

We take most everything at face value. Otherwise how could we get by?" ~ "The Museum of the Dearly Departed — Rebecca Makkai

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

Craft is not a category; it's a means. The folks running the museum [Museum of Arts and Design]are sharp, and they know this, but they are in a bind. — Jerry Saltz

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

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

{Photo: The Upper Galilee Museum of Prehistory.} — Yuval Noah Harari

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

These are the people who are going to see the pictures in my museum. — Norton Simon

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

The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States; it is arguably the finest anywhere. — Jerry Saltz

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

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

She finds the ribbon she uses as a bookmark, opens the book, and the museum falls away. — Anthony Doerr

Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust museum in Washington. — Newt Gingrich

Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum. — Robert T. Bakker

When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum. — Anthony Trollope

PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood. — Ambrose Bierce

For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa. — Neil MacGregor

Soaked in pain
my suits remain standing
when I take them off -
hollow men beside the closet,
a museum of days. — Chad Sweeney

Oh, stop it, I tell myself. Stop looking for links and meaning and explanations. What did De Chirico say? The world is a museum of strangeness. — Kirsty Eagar

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste. — David Rockefeller

When our lips touched the day closed
into a coffin. In the museum of the heart... — Ocean Vuong

The American Museum of Natural History is my son's absolute favorite place in the world! So we really, really, really love New York. — Mark Teixeira

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

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

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

I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have internalized many of his boxes. — Siri Hustvedt

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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