Museums Quotes - Page 3

• We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.

  Rudolf Bing

  Modern, Function, Masterpiece

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• We live in what virtually amounts to a museum - which does not happen to a lot of people.

  Prince Philip

  People, Doe, Happens

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• Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.

  Robert Hewison

  Teamwork, Country, Numbers

  Robert Hewison (1987). “The heritage industry: Britain in a climate of decline”, Methuen

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• Why is comedy the only form of the arts where people think they have to agree with or approve the content? You don't walk through a museum with a towel and throw it over paintings you don't like.

  Jim Norton

  Art, Thinking, People

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• 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

  Unique, India, Culture

  "For Russia, deepening friendship with India is a top foreign policy priority". www.thehindu.com. December 24, 2012.

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• Since then I have held many jobs at museums in Colorado and Wyoming. I have also taught summer courses at the University of Colorado.

  Robert T. Bakker

  Summer, Jobs, Wyoming

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• We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they should be preserved.

  Jim Dale

  Theatre, Technique, Custodians

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack.

  Richard Stengel

  Numbers, Nonprofits, Headquarters

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• I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.

  Ferguson Jenkins

  Baseball, Player, Views

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• I love England though; I've been back a few times and just love it. My favorite thing to do there is going to museums and all the castles. Oh, and my husband and I went mountain biking across England on our honeymoon!

  Catherine Bell

  Husband, Mountain, Castles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night.

  Mariel Hemingway

  New York, Night, Men

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• In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything.

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Beautiful, Artist, Paris

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• We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.

  David Amram

  Art, Reading, Afterlife

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• There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals.

  Julie Harris

  Wonderful, Photograph

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

  Pierre Loti

  Remember, Periods, My Time

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• The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art.

  Xavier Becerra

  Country, Art, Looks

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• Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Running, Thinking, Intellectual

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• Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Labels, Language, Myth

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• Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood.

  Conan O'Brien

  African American, Location, Republican

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• Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.

  Salvador Dali

  Trying, Purpose, Stubborn

  Salvador Dali (2013). “The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí”, p.397, Courier Corporation

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• These are the people who are going to see the pictures in my museum.

  Norton Simon

  People

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• Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.

  Ad Reinhardt

  New York, School, Artist

  Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.24, Univ of California Press

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• Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.

  Robert T. Bakker

  Jobs, Teaching, Kids

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• Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town.

  Katherine Dunham

  Should Have, People, Black

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• There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.

  Dean Martin

  Hollywood, Doe, Jimmy Stewart

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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